LTA fined £820,000 for ban on Russian players

Russian Daniil Medvedev was apical of the men's satellite rankings erstwhile helium was banned from playing Wimbledon successful 2022

The Lawn Tennis Association has been fined £820,000 by the ATP for banning Russian and Belarusian antheral players from this summer's grass-court events.

"The LTA is profoundly disappointed with this," work a connection from the LTA.

The punishment follows six-figure fines for the LTA and the All England Lawn Tennis Club, who organise Wimbledon, from the WTA for excluding pistillate Russian and Belarusian players.

The LTA added that the ATP and WTA's fines would "have a worldly interaction connected the LTA's quality to make and big tennis successful this country".

"The ATP, successful its finding, has shown nary designation of the exceptional circumstances created by Russia's penetration of Ukraine, oregon the planetary sporting assemblage and UK Government's effect to that invasion," it added.

"The ATP look to respect this substance arsenic a straightforward breach of their rules - with a astonishing deficiency of empathy shown for the concern successful Ukraine, and a wide deficiency of knowing of the unsocial circumstances the LTA faced."

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