Meanwhile, Russia and Belarus remain banned from competing in the Davis Cup and BJK Cup team competitions following a vote among World Tennis member nations on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
The two countries were suspended by World Tennis – formerly known as the International Tennis Federation (ITF) – in March 2022<\/a> after Russia began a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, backed by its ally Belarus.<\/p>\n At the world governing body’s annual general meeting in Kazakhstan, officials from 128 nations voted to keep the suspensions of the Russian Tennis Federation and the Belarus Tennis Federation in place.<\/p>\n The vote for the two nations to remain excluded from World Tennis competitions comes despite the International Olympic Committee (IOC) no longer recommending international federations continue restrictions on Russian<\/a> and Belarusian<\/a> athletes.<\/p>\n Players including French Open semi-finalist Shnaider, along with Russian former world number one Daniil Medvedev and Belarusian world number two Aryna Sabalenka, will continue to play as neutrals under ATP and WTA rules.<\/p>\n Neither tour is planning to change their existing policy at this moment in time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Meanwhile, Russia and Belarus remain banned from competing in the Davis Cup and BJK Cup team competitions following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801662,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-801661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801661\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}