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Daily Mirror
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Alex Spink

Lesia Tsurenko: Why tennis chiefs are right to ban Russians from Wimbledon

Lesia Tsurenko tied a yellow and blue ribbon to her top and won a tennis match in the leafy surrounds of SW19.

In normal times it would have meant the world to the Ukrainian but not with a grotesque war ripping apart her country,

At Wimbledon it was less about the result than the platform it gave the 33-year old to speak for her embattled people.

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