Rublev and the dedication to the Russian singer Tsoi on camera: «Peace for all»- Corriere.it

Strong messages are coming from Dubai. On the day when Novak Djokovic loses his unbeaten run against Medvedev in 2023the other finalist will also be Russian, Andrei Rublev. After beating 7-6 6-3 Zverev (Russian parents, but born in Germany), Rublev picked up the dedication marker on the camera and wrote Tsoi is alive. Translated, Tsoi alive.

Many wondered who that message was addressed to: a Victor Tsoi, a Soviet singer and artist, who died in 1990, aged only 28, in a car accident. Tsoi was being considered the Soviet Jim Morrisonwith a rock that often went against the ideas of the time in the Soviet Union: in 1986 he wrote Peremena song about change that became the soundtrack of the riots of Belarusian youth. Change! — ask our hearts / Change! — ask our eyes / In our laughter and tears / And in the pulse that courses through our veins / We wait for changean excerpt of the lyrics of the song.

He was an artist of a past generation who had a huge volume in the USSR because his voice was really powerful – Rublev later explained -. It wasn’t an easy time. The lyrics that Tsoi wrote they gave a lot of hope to people at the time. I only wrote this because I feel that now, in this moment, similar things are happening. It’s hard to talk about it because even if you just try to play tennis or something, keep practicing, you know that this situation is affecting you. You can’t ignore it because horrible things are happening: Crazy that so many citizens are suffering and dying. The only thing I hope that there will soon be Peace in all Countries (even at the ATP Finals, in November, Peace had written on the camera).

Already a year ago in Dubai Rublev – forced, like all his compatriots, to miss the last edition of the Wimbledon tournament – had lined up against Putin and against the war in Ukraine. An initiative, that of his compatriots, which the current number 6 in the world defined as terrible. Today the second chapter.