“The activities of the Russian Tennis Federation have been officially suspended.

The decision was made by general vote.

This is expected.

They will suspend the membership of us and Belarusians.

It was a resolved issue, in fact, ”RIA Novosti quotes Tarpishchev.

Recall, on February 14, the ITF confirmed the removal of the Russian team from participation in the Davis Cup and Billie Jean King Cup 2022.

The men's national team in the Davis Cup will be replaced by the team of Serbia, the women's team in the Billie Jean King Cup will be replaced by the Australian team.

Earlier it was reported that the Russian Andrei Rublev was defeated by the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas in the 1/4 finals of the ATP Masters tournament in Madrid.