Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev complained to the referee about the behavior of Ukrainians with the national flag during the second round match of the Australian Open-2023.

It happened right during the second set in a duel against tennis player Emil Ruusuvori from Finland in Melbourne.

" It's more that they started saying bad things to me. I told the referee: It’s not about the flag, but please, you can tell them that at least they didn’t say bad words when the sides are changing,” Rublev said about the situation..

Rublev is the first racket of Russia and ranks sixth in the ATP rankings.

It should be noted that on February 25, after the full-scale invasion of the Russian Federation into Ukraine at a tournament in Dubai, Rublev wrote on a television camera "

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Earlier it was reported that the Ukrainian tennis player defeated the Russian and refused to shake his hand.