LONDON (AP) — Russian and Belarusian gamers will have the ability to compete at Wimbledon as impartial athletes after the All England Club on Friday reversed its ban from final 12 months.
The gamers should adjust to “appropriate conditions,” together with not expressing assist for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
They additionally should not obtain funding “from the Russian and/or Belarusian states (including sponsorship from companies operated or controlled by the states) in relation to their participation in The Championships,” the All England Club stated in an announcement.
Other tennis tournaments have allowed Russian and Belarusian gamers to compete as impartial athletes.
“We also consider alignment between the Grand Slams to be increasingly important in the current tennis environment,” the membership stated. “There was a strong and very disappointing reaction from some governing bodies in tennis to the position taken by the All England Club and the LTA last year with consequences which, if continued, would be damaging to the interests of players, fans, The Championships and British tennis.”
This 12 months’s Wimbledon event will begin on July 3. The girls’s last is scheduled for July 15 and the lads’s last on July 16.
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