Tennis professionals don't embody a country in the same way that national teams do, so I think it's right to ban Russian teams to send a crystal clear message. And I think it's good that you take out flags or the reference to Russia in tennis, but let the individual professionals play.

Eva Lys

Eva Lys (born 12 January 2002) is a German professional tennis player. She has career-high WTA rankings of 582 in singles, achieved on 9 March 2020, and 1139 in doubles, set on 12 August 2019. She has won one singles title on the ITF Circuit. Lys made her WTA main draw debut at the 2021 Hamburg European Open, where she received a wildcard into the doubles draw partnering Noma Noha Akugue. They lost to Mona Barthel and Mandy Minella in the first round.Lys' older sister Lisa Matviyenko is also a tennis player.

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