24-year-old Russian, Andrey Rublev, is currently playing at the 2022 Serbia Open, and he's also one of the players who voiced his disagreement with the ongoing war in Ukraine.
Andrey Rublev defeated Jiri Lehecka to reach the quarterfinals at the 2022 Serbia Open, however, everyone was waiting for his response to the Wimbledon ban after his match.
The All England Club has decided to ban Russian and Belarusian players from competing at this year's Wimbledon, and that means that Rublev, as a Russian, will not be able to enter the third Grand Slam of the 2022 season.
Novak Djokovic has previously commented on the matter, showing his disapproval of the decision, and Rublev is another player who can't agree with it. Current world number 8 is one of the Russian players who showed a clear disapproval of the ongoing war and therefore, also sees the Wimbledon ban as unfair.
World number 2, Daniil Medvedev, but also world number 8, Andrey Rublev, and more than a dozen other Russian and Belarusian players won't be able to take part in the 2022 Wimbledon. This is an unprecedented decision and saw the tennis world having different opinions as Andrey Rublev voiced out his.
"The reasons they (Wimbledon) gave us had no sense, they were illogical. What is happening now is complete discrimination against us. Banning Russian or Belarusian players will not change anything."
According to Rublev, the ban will not change anything, however, they could come up with a solution that would change something, for example, donating prize money to Ukraine.
"To give all the prize money to humanitarian help, to the families who are suffering, to the kids who are suffering, I think that would do something, at least a bit. Tennis will, in that case, be the first and only sport who donates that amount of money and it will be Wimbledon so they will take all the glory."
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