American journalist: Russia won both tournaments with the ban on the word “Russia” – Gazeta.Ru
06 December 2021, 16:40
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New York Times journalist Ben Rothenberg at Twitter spoke about the victory of the Russian national team at San Davis, noting that the national team won two tournaments under the current WADA.
“Russia won two of the two team tournaments where it could not be called“ Russia ”. Good job. Now you have quite useful sanctions, ”wrote Rothenberg.
On December 5, the men’s national team won the Davis Cup for the first time since 2006. The national team included: Daniil Medvedev, Andrei Rublev, Aslan Karatsev, Evgeny Donskoy, Karen Khachanov.
And on November 6, women won the Billie Jean King Cup for the fifth time in history. In the main match of the tournament, the tennis players beat the branch line 2: 0. In the final tournament, the following played for the national team: Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova, Daria Kasatkina, Veronika Kudermetova, Ekaterina Aleksandrova, Lyudmila Samsonova.
Russia became the fourth team to win the Davis Cup and the Billie Jean King Cup in one year.
Previously State Duma Deputy Svetlana Zhurova expressed an opinionthat the Davis Cup is an amateur tournament for tennis players and called the victory of the Russians illegal.