Russian tennis player Veronika Kudermetova answered a question about her relationship with Ukrainian Angelina Kalinina, who she lost in the semi-finals of the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) 1000 category tournament held in Rome, Italy.
“We are here and we love what we do. It doesn’t matter what country you are from. We are athletes. We are here to play tennis,” Kudermetova said. ESPN.
Ranked 47th in the WTA ranking, the Ukrainian defeated the world’s 12th racket, Kudermetova, with the scores of 7:5, 5:7, 6:2.
The match lasted 2 hours 51 minutes.
Previously, the opponents played each other twice – each of the tennis players won one victory.
In the final, Kalinina will face the winner of the second semi-final match between Elena Rybakina, representing Kazakhstan, and Elena Ostapenko from Latvia.
After the start of the CBO, the Ukrainian tennis players stopped shaking hands with their opponents from Russia and Belarus after the matches.
Shamil Tarpishchev, Former President of the Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) sureThat Russian tennis players have no problems with visas to participate in the French Open (“Roland Garros”).