Women’s tennis has an Alexander Lukashenko problem. The Belarusian autocrat’s ongoing, public celebration of compatriot Aryna Sabalenka — the world No. 1 — has sparked fury in Kyiv, ahead of her crucial Australian Open semifinal against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina. “No matter how much international sports officials and global sports bureaucrats insist that sport is ‘outside politics,’ for regimes like those of Lukashenko and Putin this has never been true,” Heorhii Tykhyi, a spokesperson for

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