By Tass
LONDON, July 3. /TASS/. One of Russia鈥檚 top racquets in the WTA Top-20 Rankings, Diana Shnaider, suffered a defeat at the 2025 Wimbledon tennis tournament in London on Wednesday night losing to French Diane Parry, ranked 118th in the WTA Rankings.
In a match that lasted one hour and ten minutes, French qualifier Parry breezed past the 12th-seed Shnaider, who is playing under no flag at the tournament, in straight sets 6-4; 6-1.
Shnaider, 21, is currently ranked 15th in the WTA Rankings. She has four WTA titles to her name, winning all of them in the previous tennis season. Her best result in Grand Slams was advancing to Round 4 of the 2024 US Open.
Playing at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games in Paris, she won a silver medal in women鈥檚 doubles with partner Mirra Andreeva.
This year鈥檚 Wimbledon takes place between June 30 and July 13 and offers a total of 50 million Euro [some $57.4 million] in prize money. Spain鈥檚 Carlos Alcaraz and Barbora Krejcikova of the Czech Republic are the reigning Wimbledon champions in men鈥檚 and women鈥檚 singles, respectively.
Russian players鈥 neutral status at tennis tournaments
On February 28, 2022, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) issued recommendations to international sports federations to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from taking part in international tournaments, citing Moscow’s special military operation in Ukraine as the reason.
Following the IOC’s recommendations in late February 2022, the majority of global sports federations decided to bar athletes from Russia and Belarus from all international sports tournaments.
The International Tennis Federation (ITF) ruled on March 1, 2022 to suspend the membership of the Russian and Belarusian national tennis federations while also canceling all previously scheduled tennis tournaments in the two countries.
On March 14, 2022, the ITF also confirmed its prohibition on the Russian and Belarusian national tennis teams from taking part in the 2022 Davis Cup and 2022 Billie Jean King Cup.