At a tournament that opened with fans booing one Ukrainian player for declining to shake hands with a Belarusian opponent, war stories continued into Wednesday.
for declining to shake hands with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka — a war-long stance of Ukrainian players toward players from Russia and its ally Belarus — war stories continued into Wednesday.“Coming back to the politics in sports,” Ukrainian player Elina Svitolina said, “as I think all Ukrainians mention, it’s connected very much because we are all people. … For me, it’s just part of human life — politics, sports, you know, different things. It’s like that.
Already she had asked for a fresh paradigm of questions and answers — away from the posh topics such as etiquette. “So right now my focus,” she said, “and I want to invite everyone to focus on helping Ukrainians. That’s the main point of this, you know, to help kids, to help women who lost their husbands because they are at the war and they are fighting for Ukraine. We are missing the main point that people now at this time, they need help as never before.
If those endurances include the serial pain of seeing Russian and Belarusian players, this tournament has winced with that. Twelve of the 14 Russian women in the singles draw won their first-round matches, all-Russian bouts dot both the second and third rounds, and Svitolina herself will find a third round against 56th-ranked Anna Blinkova. All this comes ahead of“Every single tournament, same question, how we feel.
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