Chess great Garry Kasparov slams tennis world No 1 Novak Djokovic for his stance on Russian athletes

All-time great Russian chess grandmaster Garry Kasparov has criticized world No. 1 tennis player Novak Djokovic for supporting Russian athletes, saying those who do not condemn President Vladimir Putin’s “war of destruction in Ukraine” are silent. supporting it with. ,

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Serbia’s Djokovic, speaking on the issue of the All England Club barring Russian and Belarusian players from competing at this year’s Wimbledon, said recently that while he condemns the war, the Wimbledon ban on tennis players from Russia and Belarus was unacceptable. .

“I will always condemn war. I will never support war, being a child of war. I know how much emotional trauma it leaves. In Serbia, we all know what happened in 1999. In the Balkans, We have had many wars in recent history. However, I cannot support the Wimbledon decision, I think it is madness. When politics interferes with sport, the outcome is not good,” Djokovic said recently I said in Belgrade.

Kasparov took to Twitter to remind Djokovic of the sorrows of the war facing Serbia.

“Russia may play by ranking, but they kill by nationality. Russian athletes who have not condemned Putin’s war of destruction in Ukraine are supporting it with silence. And a Serb failing to do so, given history.” This is especially unfair,” Kasparov, who was ranked world No. 1 for a record 255 months overall for his career, tweeted.

The top players to pull out of Wimbledon include world number two Daniil Medvedev of Russia and world number four Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus.

The reason Wimbledon organizers barred Russian players from competing this year is that “under the circumstances of such an unfair and unprecedented military offensive by Russia, it would be unacceptable for the Russian regime to derive any benefit from the participation of Russian or Belarusian players.” With ‘The Championship’.”

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