After Wimbledon introduced the ban on all Russian and Belarusian athletes again in April, the ATP and WTA responded by eradicating all rankings factors that gamers would have in any other case earned for his or her efficiency on the All England Membership.
A few of tennis’ greatest stars, together with males’s world No. 1 Daniil Medvedev and girls’s world No. 6 Aryna Sabalenka, won’t be competing at SW19.
“Participant nationality, outlined because the flag they play beneath at skilled occasions, is an agreed course of that’s ruled by the Excursions and the ITF,” the spokesperson stated.
The ban on Russian and Belarusian gamers has divided the tennis world, and final week, the US Open introduced that it might not be following Wimbledon’s instance later this yr, with gamers from each international locations eligible to compete beneath a impartial flag.