chelsea fan. thank you both very much and lovely to see you both again and thank you very much for your time. thank you for your company with the papers and we will be back or i will be back tomorrow with two other reviewers and do join us again for that. coming up next, we have the latest sports headlines and then we returned to singapore for newsday. good evening, i m tulsen tollett with your sports news. there s been a massive push to make every sporting arena in the world a russia free zone. the wta and the atp have announced that players from russia and belarus will be allowed to continue to compete, but must do so as neutral athletes. it means elina svitolina s match against russia s anastasia potapova at the monterrey 0pen will go ahead after the ukrainian top seed was given assurances her opponent will compete under a neutral flag.
we made a judgment, the council made a judgment, that given the appalling events that are unfolding by the minute as we sit here, in ukraine, which is an important athletics nation in our family, that we couldn t sit this dance out. russian and belarussian tennis players can continue playing on the men s and women s tours but only as neutral athletes, with no reference to their nationality. ukraine s elina svitolina s had refused to play against russia s anastashia potapova at the monterrey 0pen until that decision was made. she went on to win the match and said afterwards that her mission is to unite our tennis community to stand with ukraine . the international tennis federation has also suspended the russian and belarus tennis federations from international team competitions. formula 0ne s only russian driver nikita mazepin will be allowed to race this season. that was the decision that came out
that is based on our constitution so we can, of course if challenged we can defend it. a ukraine team of 20 athletes and nine guides will compete in the chinese capital. there had been concerns the athletes would not be able to travel safely. however, the ukrainian disabled sports committee has announced they will arrive today. two main tennis organisations have announced that players from russia and belarus will be allowed to continue to compete, but only as neutral athletes. it means ukranian elina svitolina s match against russia s anastasia potapova at the monterrey 0pen did go ahead, after the ukrainian top seed was given assurances her opponent would compete under a neutralflag. the international tennis federation has suspended the russian and belarus tennis federations from international team competition. russian formula one driver nikita mazepin will be allowed to race this season. the sport s governing body the fia has ruled