Wimbledon, Rybakina: Russia-Kazakhstan controversy –

“One of our products”. This is how Russia defines Elena Rybakina, fresh Wimbledon champion. The player, born and raised in Moscow, naturalized Kazakh in 2018, was “celebrated” on Russian social media and media. The number 1 of the Moscow federtennis said: “Great! Great Rybakina, we won the Wimbledon tournament. The former world number 1 Yevgeny Kafelnikov also echoed him, who expressed his point of view on Twitter: “Buying a ready-to-use product from a high-level factory is something everyone can do …”.

In short, a real controversy between Russia and Kazakhstan. The tennis player’s parents still live in Moscow and after the victory she found it hard to talk about Putin’s country: “The transition from junior to professional career is very difficult – she told the Kazakh press once she returned from London. -. We need a high-level team, and not everyone is able to continue and achieve success. Very few make it and for this I have been very lucky. So no, I disagree with Tarpishev’s phrase “.

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Alongside Rybakina, in the meeting with the Kazakhstan media, there was also the president of the federtennis Polskiy who argued with his Russian counterpart: “If this success is a product of Russia, then why did they let it go like this? easily? in 2018, when Elena came to us, Tarpishev had stated that he did not consider her a promising player … However I would say that it is appropriate to stop this controversy, it has already been said too much “.