Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko has a message for the world as she prepares to face compatriot Anhelina Kalinina at Wimbledon: “We still need help to win this war.” 

Russian and Belarusian players have already been banned by the All England Club in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February. Now, by a quirk of the draw, two Ukrainians get the chance to hammer home their country’s ongoing plight to a global audience after they both won their first-round matches.