“I feel like they should have taken more serious action,” Elina Svitolina condemns US Open’s decision to allow Russian players to compete at Flushing Meadows
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Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina is against the decision that the US Open recently came with allowing the Russians and the Belarusians to participate as a neutral while the Wimbledon which will start on the 27th of June has totally banned players from the two countries.
Elina Mykhailivna Svitolina is a 27-year-old Ukrainian professional tennis player who has won 16 WTA singles tennis whole-handed and finished being a runner-up three times. She was recently married to a French tennis player Gael Monfils at the time of the war that clashed between her country and Russia, which threw her into a worried state and led to her change as a person.
The war that took place a couple of months ago between Ukraine and Russia with its supporting country Belarus has destroyed Ukraine’s economy and the livelihood of the common people. This war led to the disturbance of sports events and its growth for the country where the former world No. 3 stated “Our (Ukraine’s) sports is thrown back by 10 years minimum because all the infrastructure has been damaged or completely destroyed. “She also said there are many factors that could argue for not letting the two countries play in the tournament.
‘It’s their decision to make, they decided to take this path but I don’t support it’: Elina Svitolina
Svitolina totally defended the loss that her country faced and did not support the decision that the States came up with. “It’s their decision to make, they decided to take this path. I don’t support it because I feel like they should have taken more serious action,” she said with a disagreed emotional note. Svitolina couldn’t totally agree to the policy which states, that the two country players could compete as neutrals.
Showing her patriotism for her motherland she joined former Ukraine, Chelsea, and AC Milan footballer Andriy Shevchenko as an ambassador for United24. This is a charity platform formed by the governance of the country to support the nation and the suffering people to recover from the war.
She felt heartbroken for not getting any support during an interview and was later comforted by her pregnancy as she said she must prioritize this for the time. She is also hoping for the US Open to take the appropriate action to her concerns like the Wimbledon. She is hoping to step at the 2024 Olympics in Paris.
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