{"id":395090,"date":"2022-12-08T07:02:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=395090"},"modified":"2022-12-08T07:04:27","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T12:04:27","slug":"wimbledon-to-lift-ban-on-russia-belarus-after-atp-expulsion-threat","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/wimbledon-to-lift-ban-on-russia-belarus-after-atp-expulsion-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon to lift ban on Russia, Belarus after ATP expulsion threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"article-s4-rs mb-5 md:mb-3 -md:common-container\">Wimbledon is poised to lift the ban on Russian and Belarusian players after <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/britains-tennis-association-fined-1-mln-over-russia-belarus-ban\/\">the British tennis has been threatened with expulsion from the ATP men\u2019s tour<\/a><span style=\"color: #0000ee;\"><u>,<\/u><\/span> according to the Times.<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wimbledon is poised to lift its ban on Russian players next year after British tennis was threatened with expulsion from the ATP Tour <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/asW5X3RYJ3\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/t.co\/asW5X3RYJ3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Times Sport (@TimesSport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TimesSport\/status\/1600762383584137216?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The development comes after the Britain\u2019s tennis governing body (LTA) was slapped with a $1 million fine by the ATP for banning Russian and Belarusian male players from this summer\u2019s grass-court events following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>The LTA issued a strongly-worded statement that accused the ATP of having a &#8220;surprising lack of empathy&#8221; for the situation in Ukraine and showing &#8220;a clear lack of understanding of the unique circumstances&#8221; concerning the decisions it had to make.<\/p>\n<p>The ATP&#8217;s sanction followed the fines imposed by the the Women&#8217;s Tennis Association (WTA) on the LTA and the All England Lawn Tennis Club, which organises Wimbledon over ban on players from Russia and Belarus to participate in its events over the summer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wimbledon is poised to lift the ban on Russian and Belarusian players after the British tennis has been threatened with expulsion from the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":395091,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[8405,17072,16764],"news_category":[16714],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Britain\u2019s tennis governing body (LTA) was slapped with a $1 million fine by the ATP","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/395090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395090"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=395090"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=395090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}