Final March 6, the Worldwide Tennis Federation allowed Russian and Belarusian athletes to take part within the Olympic Video games in Paris beneath a white flag and subsequently as a impartial state, because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A choice that irritated many Ukrainian athletes and past.
Daniil Medvedev and Mirra Andreeva can be current on the Roland Garros Stadium on the Olympic tennis event which is able to begin on July twenty seventh, with the ladies’s closing scheduled for August third and the lads’s closing to be performed on August 4th.
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Within the ladies’s singles, along with Mirra Andreeva, there can be Ekaterina Alexandrova, Veronika Kudermetova and Diana Shnaider. Within the males’s singles, along with Daniil Medvedev, there can be Aslan Karatsev, Roman Safiullin and Pavel Kotov. In latest days the president of the Russian Tennis Federation, Shamil Tarpischev, had knowledgeable that Andrey Rublev, Karen Khachanov and Ljudmila Samsonova wouldn’t play on the Olympics. Daniil Medvedev will play males’s doubles paired with Roman Safiullin whereas Kotov will play with Karatsev.
Within the ladies’s doubles there can be Andreeva along with Kudermetova and Alexandrova with Shnaider. For the blended doubles there has not but been a call however the plans would come with the duo of Daniil Medvedev and Mirra Andreeva.
In any case, the ultimate choice can be made shortly earlier than the beginning of the Paris Olympics. Recall that within the earlier Summer time Olympics which have been held in Tokyo in 2021 a 12 months later than the same old calendar as a consequence of Covid, Russian tennis gamers received three medals in tennis: one gold and two silver medals. Within the all-Russian blended doubles closing, Rublev and Pavlyuchenkova beat Aslan Karatsev and Elena Vesnina. Within the singles closing, Karen Khachanov misplaced within the closing for gold to the consultant of Germany, Alexander Zverev.
Mirra Andreeva had an opportunity to fulfill 6-time Roland Garros champion Bjorn Borg this 12 months on the French Open!
Not solely that, she managed to take a sneak selfie with Andy Murray identical to how regular followers like us would do
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