Wimbled Women's Singles Champion has Russian background

Author:Global Times Time:2022.07.11

"A race prohibiting Russians from participating was won by a player born in Moscow." The British "Daily Mail" said that in the Wimbledon Women's Singles Finals on the 9th, Libabingsona reversed at 2: 1 reversed at 2: 1 Tunisian player Jabewal won the championship and became the first Kazakhstan player to win Wimbledon Women's singles championship. However, it was the Russian background of Libakina after the game.

According to Agence France -Presse reports on the 10th, at the press conference after winning the championship, Libakina was again asked about the nationality issue after the semi -finals, and some reporters hoped that the new Kenwin.com champion would make a statement on Russia and Ukraine. "From my personal perspective, I can only say that I am on behalf of Kazakhstan. I can't choose my own place of birth, and Kazakhstan supports me very much. I don't know how to answer these questions."

Libnna, 23 years old and 1.84 meters tall, grew up and grew up in Moscow. When she was young, she practiced gymnastics and skating. Later, due to rapid growth in height, she chose tennis. Libakina was trained at the Spartaqin Tennis Club in Moscow, and was a teacher from Russia's tennis Keltinokov. Later, due to the failure to find financial support in Russia, it began to play on behalf of Kazakhstan in 2018. In the 2019 Bologast Open, Libakina won the first WTA event singles championship in his career; in 2021, the French Tennis Open, she first reached the Grand Slam women's single quarterly. In addition, she also participated in the Tokyo Olympics last year on behalf of Kazakhstan. Libakina opened this year's Wimbledon as the 23rd as the WTA singles world ranking, defeating strong enemies such as Tom Janovic, Halle and Jaberur, and became the youngest Wen Wen's youngest warmth since 2011. Net women's singles champion.

"Isn't Libakinna's championship be ironic?" Some people questioned Wenwang. Catherine Odvely, a sports scholar at the University of Canberra, believes that Libakina completed the nationality transformation before the Russia -Uko conflict. She was a warwood in the name of her personal name. "This is their career and their source of income." During the entire Wimbledon period, Libakina has been reluctant to talk about her previous living conditions in Russia. When he was asked about his parents who lived in Moscow, Libakina shed tears, "they should be very proud."

In Kazakhstan and Russia, the winning championship of Libakina also caused heated debate. Kazakhstan "Sports" said that Kazakhstan President Toccyev congratulated her on social platforms to win the championship. Tocaev also called Libnina, saying that her success would promote the further development of Kazakhstan tennis. Russian National Dumarian Rourova said, "We are very supportive of every athletes who are related to us. Thank you for not being prohibited from all Russian descent or Russian -related athletes." According to the introduction, Libakina turned to Kazakhstan "because the conditions were better than Russia at that time", "everyone has the right to choose their own way. We have a good relationship with the Kazakhstan network association."

Libakina is not the only athlete to switch to Kazakhstan from Russia. "This is not a secret," according to the support of the Russian sports website Championat, with the funding support of Kazakhstan rich man Blatu Utimukov, Alexander Burek, Mikhail Kukshkin, Dimi Tennis players such as Terry Berpkko and Andre Glutov have been transferred from Russia to Kazakhstan.

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