{"id":1342240,"date":"2022-02-25T07:51:18","date_gmt":"2022-02-25T12:51:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342240"},"modified":"2022-02-25T12:52:49","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T17:52:49","slug":"no-war-please-russian-tennis-star-writes-message-for-whole-world-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/no-war-please-russian-tennis-star-writes-message-for-whole-world-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No War Please\u2019: Russian Tennis Star Writes Message For Whole World To See"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fno-war-please-russian-tennis-star-writes-message-for-whole-world-to-see%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1342240&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/02\/GettyImages-1372797138.jpg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>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, \u201cNo War Please\u201d on the television camera where the whole world could see it.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev writes &#8220;No war please&#8221; on the camera following his advancement to the final in Dubai. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/GQe8d01rTd\">pic.twitter.com\/GQe8d01rTd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 TSN (@TSN_Sports) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TSN_Sports\/status\/1497234776905842688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Last week Rublev won the Open 13 Provence final in Marseilles, France. He said after his semi-final win on Friday, \u201cI\u2019m 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\u2019m just happy,\u201d ATP Tour <a href=\"https:\/\/www.atptour.com\/en\/news\/rublev-hurkacz-dubai-2022-friday\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI 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,\u201d he continued. \u201cI was thinking that was impossible to do, and somehow I did it this year. I still don\u2019t know even myself how I did it, so let\u2019s see what happens next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rublev won the tense match, 3-6, 7-5, 7-6(5).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe momentum appeared to be with the Rublev in an engrossing final set,\u201d ATP Tour noted. \u201cThe 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.\u00a0It 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In November, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/films\/2021\/11\/11\/how-putin-is-silencing-his-opponents\">The Economist<\/a> wrote, \u201cIn Russia, repression\u00a0is on the rise as the regime of Russia\u2019s president, Vladimir Putin, ramps up efforts to crush dissent. In January 2021 Alexei Navalny, the country\u2019s opposition leader, was arrested\u2014triggering some of the biggest demonstrations in Russia for years. But the protests were met with violence from the authorities. Since then, Putin\u2019s tactics have intensified: eliminating opposition politicians, exploiting the justice system and branding journalists critical of the Kremlin as \u2018foreign agents.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/pages\/interactives\/suspicious-russian-deaths-sacrificial-pawns-or-coincidence\/\">USA Today<\/a> wrote in 2017: \u201cDozens 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. \u2026 Prominent critics of the Russian leader who had been murdered in previous years include journalists, anti-corruption activists and politicians.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUkrainians revolted against their pro-Russian president in February 2014,\u201d USA Today continued. \u201cNeighboring 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 \u2018people\u2019s republics\u2019 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <a class=\"in-cell-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">member<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}