‘Every Country Can Set Their Own Rules’ – Daniil Medvedev on Bizarre Request by the UK’s Sport Minister to Wimbledon

In view of the Russia-Ukraine crisis, a number of Russian players have been facing difficulties every now and then. One such player is Daniil Medvedev. Even though the former World No. 1 has been continuously appealing for peace since the start of the crisis, his stand doesn’t seem to have made much of a difference.

Recently, the Sports Minister of the UK spoke that the Russian players playing at Wimbledon should give some potential assurance that they do not support Vladimir Putin. He also asserted that the players should be open to the requirements that the government may put in order to get the assurance. During his pre-tournament press conference in Miami, Medvedev was asked a question relating to the minister’s statement.

In such situations of national differences, the most affected are usually the ones representing their country on an international level. It gets even worse in the case of sportspeople. Keeping that in mind, the question raised to Medvedev said, “Do you think it’s fair you, as a tennis player, is potentially going to be penalized for something that’s out of your control?”

Daniil Medvedev on UK Minister’s call for assurance

Even though the Russian sensation might have disagreed with the Minister’s words, he refrained from showing it during the conference. Instead, he went on respecting the call, calling it his right to do it.

“I want to say every country, that’s how life is, every country can set their own rules. Maybe tomorrow somebody’s gonna announce, I don’t know, we don’t want any more tennis tournaments. Some big country will say — say, one country has a Grand Slam, and maybe some other Masters events gonna say, we don’t want any more tennis in our country, the president gonna say it. He has the right to do it. That’s how life is,” he said.

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Getting his personal say in the picture, the 2021 Australian Open runner up asserted that he does have personal opinions. However, he further added that instead of going public, he prefers to speak about them in with her near ones.

He said, “It’s very tough in life to talk what is fair and not fair. So I of course do have my own opinions on different topics, but I prefer, yeah, to speak about them with my family, with my wife, where we can sometimes disagree but we can discuss and, yeah, it’s much easier when you have a(indiscernible) about this.”

Medvedev at the Miami Open

The statement of the minister concerns Wimbledon. However, that’s still a long way to go. Right now, the 26-year-old Russian is playing at the Miami Open. Entering the draw as the top seed, Medvedev has received a first-round bye.

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Getting the bye, he will now start his tournament campaign from the second round, where he will face the 2-time Miami champion Andy Murray.