 Welcome back to Tennis Talk, my name is Cam Williams and Ukrainian tennis player Elena Svetolina has pulled out of her first round match at the Monterey Open against Russian player Potipova in protest of having to play against Russian players with the conflict that's going on with her home country and the nation of Russia. She actually came out with a statement, let's go have a read. So this is what the statement from Svetolina says, Dear all, I believe the current situation requires a clear position from our organizations, ATP, WTA and ITF. As such, we, Ukrainian players, requested to ATP, WTA and ITF to follow the recommendations of the IOC to accept Russia and Belen Russian nations only as neutral athletes without displaying any national symbols, colors, flags or anthems. Accordingly, I want to announce that I won't be playing in the Monterey Open nor any other match against Russian or Belorussian tennis players until our organizations take this necessary decision. I do not blame any of the Russian athletes, they are not responsible for the invasion of our motherland. Moreover, I wish to pay tribute to all the players, especially Russians and Belorussians, who bravely stated their position against the war. Their support is essential. So there you have it, Svetolina coming out and saying that she will not play any Russian or Belorussian players as long as they can represent their flags and their nations and their countries. Now we know that the Olympics, if you've been watching the Olympics over the last few years, you'll see that Team Rock has been the nation that Russians have been kind of under. The Russian Olympic Committee, so they haven't been represented by their flags or their anthems in those tournaments. So Svetolina wants something done like that in the tennis world as well, both ATP, WTN, ITF, who are the grand slam holders, they do all the grand slam. So let me know in the comments below. Do you think this is a good stance? I think this is a reasonable decision. People are asking that Russian players and Belorussian players be banned. We'll talk about that in another video. But do you think Svetolina's case of having the players from Russia and Belarus stripping them of their flags for the remainder of this conflict and having them maybe go under the rock banner, which we've seen over the last few years, especially at the Olympics, we've seen that over the Olympics?