MOSCOW, Aug 7Roman Teryushkov, member of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture and Sports, called world No. 1 Russian Daniil Medvedev a «French tennis player of Russian origin.» on Sunday night, he beat Briton Cameron Norrie with a score of 7:5, 6:0 in the final of the tournament in Los Cabos, Mexico and won his first title of the season. The Russian lives in Monte Carlo (Principality of Monaco) and trains in France. His coach is the Frenchman Gilles Servara. «Firstly, I congratulate Daniil Medvedev on a well-deserved victory. I, like most Russians, did not watch his final match. After the tennis player removed the Russian flag at the request of the West, he became of little interest to me and the population Secondly, I don’t really understand what “Russian tennis player” D. Medvedev means, if (he) lives in France and probably has the citizenship of a country officially defined by Moscow as unfriendly, then it would probably be more correct to write «a French tennis player of Russian origin,» Teryushkov wrote on his Telegram channel.Earlier, the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) and the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) announced the admission of Russian athletes to competitions only in a neutral status.Later, Medvedev and another Russian tennis player Karen Khachanov was removed from personal pages on Instagram (the activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist) flags of Russia. «Thirdly them, tennis is a wonderful sport. But for Russia, he repeated and I repeat here, he cannot be the leader, and even more so the main one. The number of people involved is 185 thousand people with a population of 145 million. This is 0.13% of those involved. Russians are much more fond of checkers and chess… Tennis is initially a super-political sport in our country,» he added. earned more than $24 million In July, Medvedev broke the Russian record for weeks of leadership in the ATP rankings in men's singles, previously held by Marat Safin.
