“Completely no person flying the flag for Russia needs to be allowed or enabled,” mentioned Huddleston.
“We want some potential assurance that they don’t seem to be supporters of Putin and we’re contemplating what necessities we could have to try to get some assurances alongside these traces.”
Huddleston mentioned he was in contact with the match organizers, the All England Garden Tennis Membership (AELTC), and that discussions had been going down.
CNN reached out to the AELTC however has not obtained a direct response.
Present guidelines permit Russian and Belarusian gamers to compete on the lads’s ATP and girls’s WTA tour however solely as impartial athletes.
Russia and Belarus, which helped stage the invasion of Ukraine, are banned from staff occasions such because the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup as sport continues to show its again on Putin.
“My message is all the time the identical — I would like peace in the entire world,” Medvedev instructed reporters earlier this month when requested in regards to the conflict.
CNN has contacted Medvedev’s staff about Huddleston’s feedback however didn’t obtain a direct response.
Nonetheless, WTA head Steve Simon mentioned he doesn’t need gamers to be banned if they do not publicly criticize the “choices of an authoritarian management.”
“You by no means know what the long run could convey,” Simon instructed the BBC Tuesday.
“However I can inform you that we now have by no means banned athletes from taking part on our tour as the results of political positions their management could take.
“So it could take one thing very important for that to vary, however once more we do not know the place that is going.”
The WTA must change its guidelines ought to the federal government resolve to ban Russian gamers however Simon mentioned it could not be a transfer he helps.
“I really feel very strongly that these particular person athletes shouldn’t be those which are being penalized by the choices of an authoritarian management that’s clearly doing horrible, reprehensible issues.”
Wimbledon is scheduled to run between June 27 and July 10.
