Djokovic with a straight leg against the decision of the All England Club and the English government to exclude all Russian and Belarusian tennis players from the next Wimbledon.
The London major is very dear to the number 1 in the world, who has won it six times, but the Serbian tennis player just does not agree with the provision announced yesterday.
“I will always condemn war, I will never support it as I myself am a child of war. I know the emotional trauma it leaves, we all know what happened in Serbia in 1999 and in the recent history of the Balkans we have had many wars, ”he said after the hard-won first round in his Belgrade on Djere.
“However, I cannot support the choice of Wimbledon, I think it is crazy. Russian tennis players have nothing to do with it and when politics interferes with sport the result is never good ”. A stance that follows that of the ATP and WTA, which also condemned the choice of the All England Club.
And Nole adds to it, recalling that "discrimination based on nationality is a violation of our agreement with Wimbledon, which requires every player to enter the tournament on the basis of the exclusive ranking".
(Unioneonline / L)
