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CrimzonSun t1_jeg4kdy wrote

Why is everyone here blaming Wimbledon? Comparing them to IOC etc? Saying they took a bribe or something. The AEC (owners of Wimbledon) and the LTA (Queens Club etc) were the only tennis associations to ban Russian players and were punished by the ATP and threatened with expulsion. ATP are the ones who would need to impose a ban if it was going to happen otherwise we're talking about 2 weeks of the tour they couldn't play.

www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/dec/07/lta-fined-1m-by-atp-for-banning-russian-players-from-tennis-tournaments

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FlamingMoe33 t1_jegcvcm wrote

Absolutely, lots of Russian and Belorussian athletes competed in the other Grand Slam tournaments. In the Australian Open 2023, the women's final was a Belorussian against a Russian (who now starts for Kazakhstan).

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