The corresponding letter was signed by eight Ukrainian tennis players: Elina Svitolina, Sergey Stakhovsky, Marta Kostyuk, Lesya Tsurenko, Ilya Marchenko, Katarina Zavatskaya, Lyudmila and Nadezhda Kichenok Athletes told Tribuna. com that Zukin systematically exceeds his authority in his post.

" Federation vice-president Yevgeny Zukin allows himself to communicate in a rude and obscene form with the players of the national team, without neglecting threats and blackmail. Systematically exceeds the authority, at its own discretion, by sympathy, determining the composition of the national teams, and this is only a small part of all the disgrace and horror that the players of the national team face.

Not wanting to put up with such an attitude and position, the players drafted and sent a letter to the competent authorities demanding that Zukin be removed from all positions in tennis, both Ukrainian and European..

In the hope of restoring the confidence and reputation of the Ukrainian Tennis Federation, a group of Ukrainian professional tennis players are officially demanding the dismissal of Evgeniy Zukin from positions in the Ukrainian Tennis Federation and the ITF Davis Cup Committee, from the position of an ITF referee and from any other positions in the tennis environment of Ukraine and the ITF..

Recall that the WTA fined the organizers of British tournaments a substantial amount due to the removal of athletes from the aggressor countries.