Victoria Azarenka | “You were banned from Wimbledon, simply because of your passport…”

This week we are joined by 2x Grand Slam champion and former world number one, Victoria Azarenka. Born in Belarus, during the final years of the Soviet Union, Victoria’s career in tennis started purely by chance. After moving to the USA as a teenager to pursue her dream she would go on to become the first Belarusian to capture a tennis Grand Slam, winning the Australian Open in 2012.

But now she has found herself in the middle of tensions, as the sporting and political worlds collide…

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