The 2022 Wimbledon Championships are on the cusp of having their ranking points stripped in response to the tournament banning all Russian and Belarusian players.
That's after Steve Simon, chief executive for the WTA, informed a group of high-profile players that he was officially recommending the response during a conference call on Tuesday evening. It's highly likely the ATP would follow suit in that event as the governing bodies send a message to the All England Club.
It was confirmed in April that all that Russian and Belarusian players would be barred from competing at SW19 this year following Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The decision didn't go down well with other organisers, however, with the head of the WTA among those to raise resistance at the idea.
