Tarpischev weighs up appeal against WTA suspension


  • Tennis
  • Wednesday, 10 Dec 2014

President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpischev gestures as he attends Boris Yeltsin Foundation Ceremony Awards during the Kremlin Cup tennis tournament in Moscow October 18, 2014. REUTERS/Grigory Dukor

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Tennis Federation (RTF) president Shamil Tarpischev is weighing up an appeal against his year-long WTA Tour suspension for making an inappropriate comment about the Williams sisters.

"I am looking at the possibility of filing a lawsuit," Tarpischev told the ITAR-TASS news agency on Wednesday.

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