Russian tennis players will be barred from competing at Wimbledon in June, a decision that will prevent current world No. 2 Daniil Medvedev from playing in the season’s third Grand Slam. The tennis…
Good! Russian people need to take more responsibility for what their country is doing. They need to be excluded from all world affairs until they quit their war in Ukrainian and pay massive reparations to rebuild Ukraine.
Why is that insanity? A portion of their income goes to Russia. We should cut Russia off at the knees economically for what they are doing, make an example of their murderous government to the world.
Yes, it's not the fault of the players, but it needs to be done.
You know, it's interesting, between war raging on, the likelihood that they take at least part of Ukraine and refuset to pay reparations, Russia could really be sidelined for decades if you think about it. This was a horrible miscalculation on their part. You have to believe that elite Russian athletes will start leaving if not this year in the coming years.
Over 90% of Russians support Putin and the murders and rapes going on in Ukraine. It only makes sense you would want to ban such people from anything, even if a few alleged detractors got caught up in the ban. Where's the hardship? Go play tennis in Kyiv or Murmansk if you like playing games so badly.
Good. If Medvedev or another Russian player had won, Putin would use it for propaganda purposes. I don't hate Russia but what is going on in Ukraine is utterly evil.
Price you pay for having a lunatic thug running things. Where are the crazy people over there plotting to take Putin out?
I would say Boris Johnson is a lunatic thug. Confine own people into unbearable lockdowns and party like crazy. Should he be taken out too?
A Yank talking about British politics ha ha, Britain under Boris has done more to help Ukraine than any other European nation. Ok he had a piece of lemon drizzle cake on his birthday! so what. Your top guy probably can not remember when his birthday is.
If Russian tennis players are allowed to compete, you will have a complete mess. Players will refuse to compete with the Russian players, which will then set up an easier tournament for the Russians. Fans will disrupt matches with Russian players. Medvedev is already a player fans love to hate. And then you may run into trouble with sponsors who do not want to be associated with an event that welcomes Russians. The only way for Wimbledon to carry on with a professional quality event is to just keep the Russians out.