Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: November 28, 2023, 14:45 IST
Tennis representstive picture (AFP Photo)
The second version of the Northern Palmyra Trophies event might be held in St. Petersburg and can characteristic gamers from each the WTA and ATP Tour.
The WTA mentioned that whereas it doesn’t help an exhibition occasion being held in Russia this weekend gamers who participate in it is not going to be sanctioned.
The second version of the Northern Palmyra Trophies event might be held from Dec. 1-3 in St. Petersburg and options gamers from each the WTA and males’s ATP Tour.
The occasion, which is sponsored by Russian power big Gazprom, is being held whereas Russia’s continues its conflict with Ukraine.
“This event is not affiliated with the WTA nor is the WTA supportive of the event being held,” the governing physique of ladies’s tennis instructed Reuters on Monday.
“Players compete on the WTA Tour as independent contractors and, at their discretion, have the ability to participate in an exhibition without penalty during the off-season.”
Representatives for the boys’s ATP Tour didn’t reply to a request for remark.
Among the WTA gamers participating are former French and U.S. Open quarter-finalist Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan, Russian world quantity 28 Anastasia Potapova and former Roland Garros quarter-finalist Veronika Kudermetova, who can also be from Russia.
ATP gamers embody world quantity 15 Karen Khachanov of Russia, Roberto Bautista Agut of Spain and France’s Adrian Mannarino, in keeping with the occasion’s web site.
Wimbledon banned Russian and Belarusian gamers in 2022, which prompted the excursions to strip the occasion of rating factors that 12 months, however allowed them to return as neutrals this 12 months.
More than 10,000 civilians have been killed in Ukraine since Russia invaded in February 2022, the U.N. Human Rights Office mentioned final week.
(This story has not been edited by News18 workers and is printed from a syndicated information company feed – Reuters)
