Russia's Anastasia Potapova should not publicly show support for her country during its invasion of Ukraine, world number one Iga Swiatek said on Monday as she criticised the player for showing up in a Spartak Moscow soccer shirt at Indian Wells.
"To be honest, I was surprised," Poland's Swiatek told a news conference following her own victory over Bianca Andreescu, when she was asked for a comment by a Polish journalist. Swiatek has openly condemned Russia's aggression against Ukraine since the war, which Moscow calls a 'special miliatry operation', started in February last year, while she actively engaged in promoting support for Ukrainians."I've talked to the WTA and in a way I found out that there should be less such situations because they will explain to other players that you can't promote any Russian teams these days, which reassured me a bit," she said.