Robert Baptist, member of the Davis Cup team, this Wednesday condemned the invasion of Ukraine and criticized the exclusion that the International Tennis Federation (ITF) has imposed on Russia, that he has considered “unfair”.
“What’s happening isn’t right, but it is not fair that it affects them when it comes to playing”Álvaro Bautista responded to the question about the ITF sanction against Russia, in one of the press conferences prior to the Davis Cup tie against Romania this Friday and Saturday.
For his part, his teammate Paul Carreo He stated that Rublev, Mezvedev (number one in the world) and other Russian tennis players have shown that They “do not support” Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“All the decisions, fair or unfair, are going to be little for what they are suffering in Ukraine,” added Carreo in a speech in which the entire Spanish Davis Cup team participated.
The captain of Spain, Sergi Bruguera, said that he does not know “what is right and what is not”because for sanctions he is not “the right person to know how to act”, while Carlos Alcaraz and Alejandro Davidovich did not make statements about.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Tuesday indefinitely suspended the Russian and Belarusian federations from all nations competitions, the Davis Cup -Russia is the current champion- and the Billie Jean King Cup.
