Muscovite by birth, raised tennis in Bratislava thanks to Kazakh patronage, booming in Wimbledon: behind a blossoming talent, a profound geopolitical question
History, you know, knows how to take some sacrosanct revenge. Elena Rybakina is the punishment for the decision to exclude Russian and Belarusian athletes from Wimbledon, a conceptual reverberation of the war that Putin has unleashed in Ukraine and which sees Boris Johnson as one of the most exposed opponents: the retaliation against the athletes, however, is that excess of sanction which directs the issues into obtuse walls, up to the counter-move of the ATP which has decided to purge the tournament from the points, in this race for error.