It should be noted that the organizers of Wimbledon-2022 reported that tennis players from Russia and Belarus would not be allowed to the tournament due to the full-scale war that the Russian Federation unleashed on the territory of Ukraine.

Thus, Wimbledon became the first international tennis tournament to ban Russians and Belarusians from participating in individual competitions..

However, the WTA did not like this decision at all, which decided not to count tennis players' rating points for their performance at Wimbledon.. This, in fact, did not please Kostyuk.

" This is so stupid I just can't believe it. None of the players' representatives on the Council have contacted me.. None of them asked my opinion, what do I think. As if Ukrainian players do not exist.

Look what Rafael Nadal said, what Novak Djokovic says. How can you get support from the Tour when the top three players say things like that? Victoria Azarenka is on the Players' Council, decides on points at Wimbledon, where she does not even participate and at the same time says that she has no personal interest in making decisions. But even the very fact that she is on all conference calls is already ridiculous,"

Previously, ATP and ITF decided not to award points for Wimbledon-2022.

Prior to this, the ex-first racket of Ukraine Serhiy Stakhovsky was outraged by the decision to deprive Wimbledon of rating points.

Ukrainian tennis player Oleksandr Dolgopolov also criticized the tennis community.

In turn, the organizers of Wimbledon-2022 have already reacted to the outrageous verdict of the ATP, WTA and ITF and stated that they had made the "

Recall that Roland Garros limited itself to conditional sanctions against Russian and Belarusian athletes..

Wimbledon 2022 is scheduled to take place from 27 June to 10 July in the London suburb of Wimbledon.