(Provided by Tennis World USA)
The war between Russia and Ukraine is such a widely discussed topic, that it inevitably spills over into other areas such as sport. Just think of the sanctions that Russian and Belarusian tennis players received at Wimbledon in 2022, to name one example.
Russian and Belarusian tennis players who, despite being totally unrelated to the atrocious Russian-Ukrainian political events, suffer considerable media pressure. The most striking case of the last few days is that which concerned Aryna Sabalenka, who declared that she did not feel safe in the last press conference held at the Roland Garros 2023, so much so that she asked the organization to draw up a precise list of journalists to be admitted to the press room from now on.
Request that, as announced by the tournament director Amélie Mauresmo in an interview with L’Equipe, the management board of the Parisian Slam has decided to satisfy.
Mauresmo: “her request also came from other tennis players”
Aryna Sabalenka’s request was not an isolated one.
According to Amélie Mauresmo, other players have also invited the management of the Roland Garros to allow access to the tournament press rooms only to journalists who…
