{"id":1515773,"date":"2022-06-14T16:04:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1515773"},"modified":"2022-06-14T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T20:04:18","slug":"russia-belarus-tennis-athletes-forced-to-play-under-neutral-flags-in-u-s-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/russia-belarus-tennis-athletes-forced-to-play-under-neutral-flags-in-u-s-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia, Belarus Tennis Athletes Forced To Play Under Neutral Flags In U.S. Open"},"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%2Frussia-belarus-tennis-athletes-forced-to-play-under-neutral-flags-in-u-s-open%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=1515773&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--><p>Mike McNulty, USTA Chairman of the Board and President, shared the association\u2019s solidarity with the people of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTennis has done much through Tennis Plays for Peace for humanitarian support of Ukraine. Unfortunately, the need for help only continues to grow. The USTA will be responding very soon with a broad set of initiatives that will include significant financial assistance and other programs to further support humanitarian relief and the people of Ukraine,\u201d he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usopen.org\/en_US\/news\/articles\/2022-06-14\/usta_statement_regarding_russian_and_belarusian_players_at_the_2022_us_open.html#:~:text=Mike%20McNulty%2C%20USTA%20Chairman%20of,help%20only%20continues%20to%20grow.\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The move comes after Russia was <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Sports\/wireStory\/russian-tennis-players-allowed-compete-us-open-85387217\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restricted<\/a> from two international team events in tennis in which it was the reigning champion, the Billie Jean King Cup and Davis Cup.<\/p>\n<p>Wimbledon, which begins June 27, announced in April that it would ban all Russian and Belarusian athletes. The move barred men\u2019s top-ranked player, Russian Daniil Medvedev, from the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The USTA\u2019s approach has also been different from other athletics organizations. Some sports, such as soccer\u2019s World Cup, have completely banned Russia from competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">The USTA also announced plans to offer additional financial assistance for humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. The association intends to use the U.S. Open as a platform to raise awareness about the war.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-72 Component-p-0-2-63\">\u201cThis is a horrific situation and we, along with everyone else in tennis, absolutely condemn what is an unprovoked and unjust invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and everything is framed in that context,\u201d U.S. Tennis Association CEO and Executive Director Lew Sherr <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/russia-ukraine-sports-tennis-belarus-5c1877b35c79331ce14ab0475911ccff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a>. \u201cAs difficult as some of these decisions may be, none of it amounts to the difficulties being experienced in Ukraine right now, and the tragedies and atrocities.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis players from Russia and Belarus will be forced to compete under a neutral flag in the upcoming U.S. Open, according to a statement from the United States Tennis Association (USTA). The USTA made the announcement on Tuesday due to Russia\u2019s military invasion of Ukraine. Belarus has served as one of Russia\u2019s main allies in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1515870,"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-1515773","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\/1515773","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\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1515773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}