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		</div><p>Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka has received “hate” from people in the sport over Belarus’ role in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.</p>
<p>The Belarussian says she has never experienced such tensions in the locker room before and has been confronted with “weird conversations” after her country aided Russia with their war.</p>
<p>“It was really tough for me because I’ve never faced that much hate in the locker room,” the 24-year-old said at a press conference to preview the Miami Open.</p>
<p>“There are a lot of haters on Instagram when you’re losing matches, but in the locker room I’ve never faced that.</p>
<p>“It was really tough to understand that there’s so many people who hate me for no reason. I did nothing.</p>
<p>“It was really tough but now it’s getting better.</p>
<p>“I had some, not like fights, but I had some weird conversations with, not the girls, but with members of their team. It was tough. It was [a] tough period. But, now it’s getting better.”</p>
<p>The war has perhaps caused more tension in tennis than any other sport, with Russian, Ukranian and Belarussian players regularly coming up against each other.</p>
<p>Russian players have been banned from playing under their country’s flag, but that has not been enough to appease a host of Ukranian players on the tour.</p>
<p>Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko pulled out of her match with Sabalenka at Indian Wells last week, citing a panic attack she had suffered after discussions with Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) chief executive Steve Simon, while Russia’s Anastasia Potapova was handed a formal warning for wearing a Spartak Moscow shirt on court.</p>
<p>Russian players were banned from competing in last summer’s British grass-court season as part of government sanctions, but the Lawn Tennis Association received hefty six-figure fines by both the ATP and the WTA, while Wimbledon was stripped of any ranking points.</p>
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