WARSAW : A Russian tennis player was refused boarding to a flight operated by Polish flag carrier LOT, the airline confirmed on Tuesday, in an incident that drew an angry response from the athlete on social media.Tennis player Vitalia Diatchenko said on Monday she was refused boarding to a LOT flight in C
WARSAW : A Russian tennis player was refused boarding to a flight operated by Polish flag carrier LOT, the airline confirmed on Tuesday, in an incident that drew an angry response from the athlete on social media.
"I slept at the airport, I was treated like a third class citizen , spent a few thousand euro," Diatchenko wrote. The 32-year old said she had been attempting to travel to a tournament in Corsica via Warsaw and Nice. "The provisions of the regulation introduce restrictions at certain border crossings, including airport crossings, in relation to citizens of the Russian Federation traveling from outside the Schengen area," LOT said in an emailed statement.
Diatchenko, who is ranked 250th in the world by the Women's Tennis Association, said she then tried to buy a ticket with Lufthansa , but was told she could only enter the Schengen zone via Spain as it had issued her visa.Unlike many other sports, tennis did not introduce a blanket ban on players from Russia and its ally Belarus after the invasion of Ukraine.
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