Naomi Osaka has revealed she is considering snubbing this year’s Wimbledon, after the event was stripped of its ranking points. The points stripping comes after Wimbledon bosses decided to ban all Russian and Belarusian players from competing.
The sanctions came in response to Russian President Vladimir Putin ’s invasion of neighbouring Ukraine at the end of February. The London-based Slam event has been hit with sanctions of its own though, after the Players Council made the decision to scrap ranking points from the SW19 event in response to the banning.
With the famous grass court event now going ahead without ranking points, it is expected that a number of big names could well decide not to compete come the end of June.
