Ukraine and Russia Are Warring at Tennis

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“Well, OK, in my opinion, you are the same as if you had allowed Hitler’s supporters in,” Oleksandra Oliynykova, a 25-year-old Ukrainian tennis player, declared before the start of this year’s Australian Open. “Russians belong in hell—that’s my clear position.” With these words, Oliynykova, who is ranked 71st in the world and was playing her first Australian Open, catapulted what had long been percolating into the public light: the ever-uglier acrimony between Ukrainian tennis players and their

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