Aryna Sabalenka was one of the players affected by the Wimbledon ban as she lost over 1000 points from the previous year.
She wasn't particularly thrilled by it and didn't understand why it happened and still doesn't. She talked about it in Australia explaining that nobody sane supports any kind of war:
"This is really terrible because no one supports war – no one,” said Sabalenka in an interview with The Age. "The problem is that we have to speak loud about that ... but why should we scream about that in every corner? It’s not going to help at all. We have zero control under this situation."
She continued to complain about it highlighting that essentially the ban changed nothing. It didn't help anybody:
“I’m just really disappointed sport is somehow in politics. We’re just athletes playing their sport. That’s it. We’re not about politics. If all of us could do something, we would do it, but we have zero control. They banned us from Wimbledon, and what did it change? Nothing – they’re still doing this, and this is the sad [part] of this situation.”
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