MOSCOW, September 28 Russia's number one Daria Kasatkina reacted to the State Duma deputy's statement Roman Teryushkov about his intention to appeal against the award of the title of Honored Master of Sports to the tennis player. On Wednesday, Teryushkov on the air of the program «There is a theme!» on «Match TV» he said that he intends to apply to the prosecutor's office in order to obtain the cancellation of the order to award Kasatkina this title in connection with her statements about a possible change of citizenship. Kasatkina has given several interviews in recent months in which she spoke about her gay orientation and admitted that she was ready to change her sports citizenship if it was necessary to continue her career.
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Kasatkina is 25 years old, she is on the 11th line of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) ranking and is the first racket of Russia. She has six victories in WTA tournaments.* The activities of Meta (social networks Facebook and Instagram) are banned in Russia as extremist.