Daniil Medvedev Loses a Match and No. 1 Ranking, but Faces Bigger Concerns - The New York Times

At Indian Wells, the Russian fell in the third round to Gael Monfils of France, as Medvedev faced criticism that Russian players should not be competing because of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.

Navratilova, who was born in 1956 in the Czechoslovak capital of Prague, remembers playing a Russian in a junior tournament there not long after the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries invad… [+1648 chars]

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