Sir, – It really is a sad state of affairs when a young Russian professional tennis player is banned from practising on our courts (“How is banning a Russian from practising tennis in Dublin helping the war effort in Ukraine?”, Johnny Watterson, Sport, June 3rd).
As Johnny Watterson rightly says: “ordinary Russian people are no more to blame than the average American was for wars in Iraq and Afghanistan”.
Vitalia Diatchenko is in Dublin representing nobody but herself.
It’s so sad that it has come to this. – Yours, etc,
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LAURA O’MARA,
Stillorgan,
Co Dublin.
