On Thursday, the Official State Gazette (BOE) announced the nationalization of Oksana Selekhmeteva. She, 23 years old and born in Moscow, found out on the rebound. “I saw in an Instagram story that I was already number three in Spain, but on a very small account. I didn’t know if it was true or not, but then I received a message from Javier Soler [el director deportivo de la Federación] and he confirmed it to me,” the tennis player tells the group of journalists who want to know the inside story, who she is, where she comes from and the whys. She has just lost to Marta Kostyuk on the Simone Mathieu court (6-2 and 6-3, in 1h 18m) and although she answers the questions with great integrity, she is nervous. “Have I done well?” Her hands are sweating.
