tournament in a couple weeks, as of now russians are allowed. there are some team events in tennis and in those events russians have not been allowed to play because they have their flags on their back, it s nation against nation. in the case of wimbledon they re overstepping. i hope it changes. i think the only way they re also going against the rules of the grand slam events, the atp, wba, which says you cannot discriminate against anybody except by ranking. by ranking these guys should be allowed to play. i think the only thing that would force wimbledon to step back is if they if they threaten to boycott. all of them. and i m not sure that will happen. mary, we re going to watch and see what happens at the french open. we ll tune in to watch you as well. thank you for being with us. pleasure. thanks for watching the
and andy murray will play argentine facundo bagnis in his first match of 2022. britain s former world number one has been awarded a wildcard for this week s australian open warm up tournament in melbourne. and we ll stay with tennis, as great britain have gotten their atp cup campaign off to a winning start after beating germany in sydney. they won 2 1. it came down to the doubles match as each had won a singles match. they won in straight sets and are next in action on tuesday against canada. we are right behind each player who ever goes out there on the court. we give it our all in the court or on the bench, and, yeah, it s always a lot of fun for us. like the guys say, it is once or twice a year we get to play for team events, and for us, a lot of this is what we will remember when we finished playing, i
robin match in the mixed curling. the british pair are the world champions, and they beat sweden 9 5. soa so a great start. they ll also be competing in the men s and women s team events at the games. earlier china started its olympic torch relay as part of the countdown to the games. the flame will be carried on a three dayjourney by more than 1,000 torchbearers that s a much shorterjourney than usual, because of china s covid restrictions. beijing currently has its highest number of cases sincejune 2020. it s already affecting the medal hopes of some athletes the latest to be ruled out of the games is austrian ski jump favourite, marita kramer, earliertoday. barcelona have finally confirmed the signing of arsenal striker, pierre emerick aubameyang. the gabon international was signed on a free transfer on monday, which arsenal confirmed on tuesday and now barcelona have said the move has gone through. aubameyang hadn t played