Dubai Tennis Championship: Russian Andrey Rublev calls for peace after reaching final

Andrey Rublev won the Dubai Tennis Championships past year

Russian tennis subordinate Andrey Rublev has reiterated his telephone for bid successful the warfare successful Ukraine aft reaching the Dubai Tennis Championship final.

En way to past year's title, Rublev wrote "no warfare please" connected a camera lens days aft Russia invaded Ukraine.

"You cannot enactment similar thing is happening," helium said connected Friday.

"It's horrible. It's brainsick that truthful galore conscionable mean citizens are suffering, dying. The lone happening I anticipation is that soon determination volition beryllium bid successful each country."

After beating Zverev for the archetypal clip successful six meetings, the sixth-ranked Rublev paid tribute to the precocious Soviet stone prima Viktor Tsoi by again signing the camera lens, this clip with the message: "Tsoi is alive."

"He was 1 creator from a past procreation that had immense measurement I deliberation connected USSR due to the fact that his dependable was truly powerful," added Rublev.

"That was not an casual time. The lyrics that helium was penning gave a batch of anticipation to the radical astatine that time. I conscionable wrote it due to the fact that I consciousness that now, astatine this time, is happening akin things."

Medvedev brought Djokovic's cleanable commencement to 2023 to an extremity with a straight-set triumph implicit the satellite fig one.

Djokovic had reached the semi-final connected a 20-match winning tally but went down 6-4 6-4 arsenic Medvedev acceptable up an all-Russian final.

Russian and Belarusian players were banned from competing astatine Wimbledon past twelvemonth and are waiting to larn if they tin instrumentality portion successful this year's tournament.