MOSCOW, February 20 Russian tennis player Andrey Rublev, who won the tournament in Marseille in paired with Ukrainian Denis Molchanov, said that sport unites people. On Sunday, Rublev and Molchanov beat South African Raven Clasen and Japanese Ben McLachlan with a score of 4:6, 7:5, 10:7. At the post-match press conference, Rublev was asked about his victory paired with a Ukrainian amid rising tensions between Russia and Ukraine. «We are ordinary people, we are not politicians, we play sports. Sport unites us, spectators support their team and their players. in the end, we are all together at this time. Everything is simple. Peace to everyone, «Tennis Majors quoted Rublev as saying. Earlier, at the Beijing Olympics, Russian freestyler Ilya Burov and Ukrainian Alexander Abramenko hugged after the end of the competition in ski acrobatics. At the 2018 Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea, Burov and Abramenko also warmly congratulated each other and took pictures with the Ukrainian flag.
