Russian WTA player switches nationality to play Wimbledon

[pj80]

Russian player Natela Dzalamidze switches nationality to Georgian in order to compete at Wimbledon Championships - Eurosport

 

[_GOATbis]

She has Georgian name and surname.

 

[pedro94]

Hey! Why not identify as a non-Russian? It's 2022 after all, if anyone disagrees with you, you can then just call them a xenophobe/bigot/whatever and you're good to go People can identify as bloody anything these days, so why can't you identify as a different nationality??

 

[Beulah Jesus]

Russian player Natela Dzalamidze switches nationality to Georgian in order to compete at Wimbledon Championships - Eurosport

Good for her...will probably still lose before the 4th round but hey she solved her problem.

 

[ChrisRF]

Hey! Why not identify as a non-Russian? It's 2022 after all, if anyone disagrees with you, you can then just call them a xenophobe/bigot/whatever and you're good to go People can identify as bloody anything these days, so why can't you identify as a different nationality??

Or just as having no nationality at all.

But seriously, the problem is that the ban actually is "xenophobe/bigot/whatever" indeed, and for once no one cares.

 

[octobrina10]

Hey! Why not identify as a non-Russian? It's 2022 after all, if anyone disagrees with you, you can then just call them a xenophobe/bigot/whatever and you're good to go People can identify as bloody anything these days, so why can't you identify as a different nationality??

You can call yourself whatever, but you can't enter a foreign country if you don't have a valid passport required to enter the foreign country.

 

[thrust]

Smart Girl! Medvedev and the other Russian men should have done the same, as I doubt any of them now live in Russia.

 

[Deleted member 629564]

She has Georgian name and surname.

Stalin was Georgian.

 

[pedro94]

You can call yourself whatever, but you can't enter a foreign country if you don't have a valid passport required to enter the foreign country.

Only a matter of time until progressivism and wokeness goes so far that people will be able to claim their passports based on which nationality they identify as. It's already happening with gender, why stop there?

 

[mwym]

Stalin was Georgian.

Dear, oh, dear.

DNA. No rwo humans identical.

FFS, Identical twins have identical DNA only first 8 partitions after the 'split'. Which is less than a week.

Can we use AI to prevent human stupidity inventing shortcuts ('identities')?.

If you know person's name without knowibg a person - that personis KNOWN BECAUSE HE/SHE IS NOT average reprentative specimen of ANY IDENTITY. The opposite is true. The person exactly the opposite.

If that person was an average specimen of ANY identity you would not know that person existed or exists.

How hard is that to grasp?

 

[Frenchy-Player]

Total joke :

The request of Russian tennis player Natela Dzalamidze to switch her nationality to Georgia has been approved by tennis officials which will make her eligible to play at Wimbledon next week.
Natela Dzalamidze, the current world No 43 in doubles on the women’s tour, had applied for a change of nationalities to Georgia which has been approved by the WTA (Women’s Tennis Association) Tour and the ITF (International Tennis Federation), paving the way for her to play at the All England Club next week. It is not known at this point when the request for changing of nationalities was first made.

Natela Dzalamidze changes nationality from Russia to Goergia and will play at Wimbledon

After changing nationalities from Russia to Georgia, doubles world No 43 Natela Dzalamidze will compete at Wimbledon next week

www.tennismajors.com

 

[Shaolin]

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[GabeT]

Is it explained anywhere how she did this? Did she already have dual citizenship before this? I’m guessing so since getting a new citizenship is usually a multi year process

 

[octobrina10]

Only a matter of time until progressivism and wokeness goes so far that people will be able to claim their passports based on which nationality they identify as. It's already happening with gender, why stop there?

I haven't heard that women and men will be in the same draw at Wimbledon.

 

[pedro94]

I haven't heard that women and men will be in the same draw at Wimbledon.

Me neither, what's your point?

It hasn't infiltrated Tennis yet, thankfully But it is spreading, and spreading fast..

https://www.thenational.scot/news/n...JgazC_0st_hWZeRv6LrInso28s_LB8pAe_uJR_kP0qP0A

Two former Olympians have voiced their concerns over the integrity of female sporting categories amid proposals to reform Scotland’s gender recognition process.
The controversial Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill would reduce the length of time required for a trans person to live in their acquired gender from the current two years to three months, with a subsequent three-month reflection period.
The legislation would additionally remove the need for a diagnosis of gender dysphoria ahead of an application for a gender recognition certificate, and would drop the minimum age for an application to be made from 18 to 16.
Ms Davies added: “If we enable males to be in female sports, you are excluding females from their own category of sport.
“Sport is exclusionary by nature. The whole reason you have under-10s is so that the under-10s can race and the 12-year-olds don’t go in there and win.”
Ms Yamauchi said she felt sport was inclusive “until gender identity ideology arrived”, adding: “If categories didn’t exist, the only people who would get a look-in would be adult, able-bodied males, since they are the group who have the greatest physical abilities.”

 

[Aretium]

Hey! Why not identify as a non-Russian? It's 2022 after all, if anyone disagrees with you, you can then just call them a xenophobe/bigot/whatever and you're good to go People can identify as bloody anything these days, so why can't you identify as a different nationality??

Time to get rid of all walls.

If I was playing I wouldn't want to represent anyone. All nations have dark pasts and presents built on subjugation and slavery. So why should I represent them

 

[Max G.]

Hah, good for her!

 

[WYK]

You can call yourself whatever, but you can't enter a foreign country if you don't have a valid passport required to enter the foreign country.

Just ask Djokovic.

As for the ban being xenophobic - it has nothing to do with nationality, culture or race.

 

[Nostradamus]

Smart Girl! Medvedev and the other Russian men should have done the same, as I doubt any of them now live in Russia.

can they change to ukranian>?

 

[alexio]

actually it's purely georgian surname..like chakvetadze or djugashvili, saakashvili ( i.e. li and ze at the end of surnames are georgian names, unlike yan (ian) is for armenian side, for example

 

[UnderratedSlam]

It's not like she's taken Japanese citizenship, her name reveals very clear Georgian ethnicity.

 

[Visionary]

Smart Girl! Medvedev and the other Russian men should have done the same, as I doubt any of them now live in Russia.

Why wouldn't it be "smart" to love your homeland where you were born? Why would you have to look at your place of birth through its leadership of a few government officials? I am not gona give up my citizenship for the PM of my nation's an arsehole. Anyhow, one flipping political tennis tournament shouldn't be enough for pro tennis players to give up their identity either.

 

[AnOctorokForDinner]

As one could gather from her name, she has Georgian roots, and does in fact hold Georgian citizenship as well so the change was easy.

 

[pedro94]

Just ask Djokovic.

As for the ban being xenophobic - it has nothing to do with nationality, culture or race.

The ban has nothing to do with nationality? Are you kidding me??

"Wimbledon bans all Russians and Belarusians from taking part"

How much more obvious could it be that it is based on nationality? You're delusional..