‘No War Please’: Russian Tennis Star Writes Message For Whole World To See

After winning his semi-final match on Friday against Hubert Hurkacz in Dubai at the Dubai Duty Tennis Championships and advancing to the final, Russian tennis star Andrey Rublev threw caution to the winds, ignoring the reported lethal history of Russian President Vladimir Putin, and courageously wrote, “No War Please” on the television camera where the whole world could see it.

Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev writes “No war please” on the camera following his advancement to the final in Dubai. pic.twitter.com/GQe8d01rTd

— TSN (@TSN_Sports) February 25, 2022

Last week Rublev won the Open 13 Provence final in Marseilles, France. He said after his semi-final win on Friday, “I’m feeling super happy and super tired. I could not imagine that it would happen this week again, that I would be in a final, and I’m just happy,” ATP Tour reported.

“I could not imagine how [Stefanos] Tsitsipas did it twice, because two years in a row he won the title in Marseille and [reached] the final in Dubai,” he continued. “I was thinking that was impossible to do, and somehow I did it this year. I still don’t know even myself how I did it, so let’s see what happens next.”

Rublev won the tense match, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(5).

“The momentum appeared to be with the Rublev in an engrossing final set,” ATP Tour noted. “The Hurkacz serve was called into action again to fend off four break points in the fourth game, but despite errors from both players creeping in as the tension grew, the match came down to a deciding tie-break. It was Rublev who held his nerve to secure the narrowest of victories, taking the only point of the tie-break to go against serve after Hurkacz missed a forehand before serving out victory. It marks the first time that World No. 11 Rublev has beaten Hurkacz at tour-level.”

In November, The Economist wrote, “In Russia, repression is on the rise as the regime of Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, ramps up efforts to crush dissent. In January 2021 Alexei Navalny, the country’s opposition leader, was arrested—triggering some of the biggest demonstrations in Russia for years. But the protests were met with violence from the authorities. Since then, Putin’s tactics have intensified: eliminating opposition politicians, exploiting the justice system and branding journalists critical of the Kremlin as ‘foreign agents.’”

USA Today wrote in 2017: “Dozens of high-profile Russians have died in the past three years in Russia and abroad in suspicious circumstances. Russian President Vladimir Putin has long dealt with opponents harshly. … Prominent critics of the Russian leader who had been murdered in previous years include journalists, anti-corruption activists and politicians.”

“Ukrainians revolted against their pro-Russian president in February 2014,” USA Today continued. “Neighboring Russia called the revolution a coup, sent troops into Ukraine in March, and claimed the Crimean peninsula as part of Russia on March 18. Two Russian-backed ‘people’s republics’ were formed in the Donbass region of eastern Ukraine. Ukrainians suspect Russia is eliminating republic leaders, some considered uncontrollable, and replacing them with pro-Russian Ukrainians.”

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