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!text-content\">\n                                Marta Kostyuk speaks                            <\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div class=\"ciam-article-t365\"><!-- Article Start --><\/p>\n<p>Marta Kostyuk has sent a strong message to Russian tennis players as she described a controversial Olympics decision involving Russian athletes as \u201cterrible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was revealed earlier this week that the International Olympic Committee (IOC) had decided to provisionally lift its ban on Russian athletes competing at the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Since Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, tennis players from Russia, and Belarus \u2014 Russia\u2019s military ally \u2014 have competed under neutral status rather than their nation\u2019s flags.<\/p>\n<p>At the 2024 Paris Olympics, only 32 Russian and Belarusian athletes competed with neutral status, although this included a host of tennis stars, including Daniil Medvedev, Mirra Andreeva and Andrey Rublev.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tag\/marta-kostyuk\">Kostyuk<\/a>, who is currently Ukraine\u2019s second highest-ranked tennis player across both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s tours, has been an outspoken critic of Russian players being allowed to compete in tennis since the war in her country started.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old has also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/marta-kostyuk-sends-strong-message-russian-players-mirra-andreeva-roland-garros\">strongly criticised Russian players who have not spoken out to condemn the war.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>WTA Tour News<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/exclusive-sabine-lisicki-opens-up-emotional-2013-wimbledon-final\"><strong>Exclusive: Sabine Lisicki opens up about her emotional 2013 Wimbledon final loss<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-features\/wta-rankings-winners-losers-wimbledon-sabalenka-top-rybakina-flops-swiatek-drops-ealas-high-raducanu-5\"><strong>WTA Rankings Winners &amp; Losers Wimbledon: Top two unchanged, Swiatek -4, Gauff +3, Eala\u2019s new high, Raducanu -5<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Want more from Tennis365? Add us as <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=tennis365.com\" target=\"_blank\">a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Following her quarter-final win against Jasmine Paolini at the 2026 Wimbledon Championships, Kostyuk was asked about the IOC\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, my thoughts are that it\u2019s terrible,\u201d Kostyuk said in her press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s very, very far from fair play for all the countries involved here, not just for Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, I 100% don\u2019t agree with this decision. But I feel like a lot of people spoke out on this issue. They obviously don\u2019t agree, as well. I don\u2019t think anything is going to change.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to go out there and hopefully beat every single Russian I play in Olympics, and that\u2019s it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked if she will speak to the ITF, which organises the tennis events at the Olympics, Kostyuk added: \u201cI\u2019m sure we\u2019re going to do something about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m definitely not going to be doing this before my semi-final match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, maybe I can talk more about it in U.S. or wherever, whenever I have time to talk to the team, to the girls, to the government as well, see what we\u2019re going to do about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of now, not something I\u2019m focused on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ NEXT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennis365.com\/tennis-news\/coco-gauff-karolina-muchova-sabine-lisicki-predicts-wimbledon-champion\">Coco Gauff, Karolina Muchova? 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