MELBOURNE : The Azerbaijan Tennis Federation has demanded the International Tennis Federation takes action against Karen Khachanov after the Russian sent messages of support to the breakaway Artsakh Republic from the Australian Open.
The ethnically Armenian enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, known by the separatists as the Artsakh Republic, broke away from Azerbaijan with Armenian support after a bloody post-Soviet ethnic conflict in the early 1990s. Azerbaijan tennis authorities sent a letter of protest to the ITF at the weekend demanding tough measures"to punish" Khachanov and prevent him from making similar"unacceptable provocations" at tennis tournaments.
"I say many times. I have Armenian roots," he told reporters at Melbourne Park after his quarter-final victory on Tuesday."To be honest, I don't want to go deeper than that, and I just wanted to show strength and support to my people. That's it."
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