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Lesia Tsurenko announces that the WTA has opened an investigation into her coach "I feel like with such effort WTA is trying to put pressure on me, continuing what Steve Simon started". Lesia Tsurenko announces that the WTA has opened an investigation into her coach WTA informed the Ukrainian tennis player about the opening of the case via an email Lesia Tsurenko told our website that the WTA has launched an investigation into her coach Mykyta Vlasov. According to Tsurenko, today she received an email from the Women's Tennis Association, but due to confidentiality, she cannot disclose details. "I am shocked," says Tsurenko, "I have already contacted my lawyers to discuss further actions". The tennis player herself links the Tour's actions to the events of early March this year. It should be recalled that after a conversation with WTA CEO Steve Simon, Lesia Tsurenko had a panic attack. According to the tennis player, Simon told her that support of the war against Ukraine – is the Russian/Belarusian athletes' own point of view, for which they should not be punished. To date, we have no information, and no public statement has been published, in which Steve Simon or the WTA would clearly explain the personal position of the head of the tour and the organisation's general policy on participation of the RUS/BLR players who support the war against Ukraine in tour’s events. "Then I had a panic attack, which significantly affected my mental and physical health and led to my withdrawal from the tournament in Indian Wells," recalls Tsurenko. - "After my non-public complaint, not a single WTA official responded in any way. After my public statement, no WTA official, including Lindsay Brandon (Director of Safeguarding), Bob Campbell (Senior Director, Security), David Palanzo (Senior Vice President, Legal & Business Affairs), contacted me to clarify the circumstances and the subject of my statement. This indicates that WTA was simply trying to hush up this incident and the fact of moral failure on the part of the company's CEO. I was confused and somewhat frightened by such indifference and disregard for the situation I found myself in. I was waiting for some official to initiate an investigation into this case, because it is unprecedented when the head of a company allows himself to mentally abuse a person suffering from the war. Nothing happened, absolutely all WTA officials simply ignored the incident". Last year, the WTA did not suspend Russian tennis player Anastasia Gasanova, who in her video on social media repeated Vladimir Putin's key «justifications» that were used to launch a full-scale invasion in 2022. The association also did not take any action after Marta Kostyuk's complaint about one of the Russian coaches who verbally expressed support for the Russian dictator. Lesia Tsurenko says that due to the inaction of the association after her conversation with Steve Simon, it was her coach who decided to look into the situation.  "My coach initiated an investigation into Steve Simon's actions. He submitted an official request to the WTA to open a case. And today I received a letter in which the association informed me that the case was opened against my coach. They decided to just get rid of the only person who spoke in my defense in this incident with the WTA chairman. I feel like with such effort WTA is trying to put pressure on me, continuing what Steve Simon started. I can't believe that in the civilized world it is still possible to see such dirty games, and that the chairman of the company is trying to avoid responsibility for his own actions in any way and will not shy away from using any means" Источник: btu.org.ua |
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