Fall out continues over the United Arab Emirates refusal to grant Israel’s Shahar Peer a visa to play this week’s Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships.

The Wall Street Journal Europe has cancelled its sponsorship of the Dubai tournament over the nation’s refusal to permit Peer entry into the UAE.

“The Wall Street Journal’s editorial philosophy is free markets and free people, and this action runs counter to the Journal’s editorial direction,” the WSJE said in a statement.

The announcement comes a day after Tennis Channel announced it will not televise the tournament out of protest for the treatment of Peer.

“Tennis Channel regrets to inform our viewers and tennis fans that we are canceling our upcoming coverage of the Barclays Dubai Tennis Championships in Dubai, U.A.E, originally scheduled for this weekend,” Tennis Channel Chairman and CEO Ken Solomon said in a statement. “Unfortunately the event will exclude a single player who has been blocked from entering the country due to her nationality. This is despite her having qualified for the competition via her on-court performance and current ranking. Tennis Channel recognizes that this exclusion has been made by state authorities and neither the tour nor tournament directors themselves. However we also honor the role and proud tradition that tennis has always played as a driving force for inclusion both on and off the courts. Preventing an otherwise qualified athlete from competing on the basis of anything other than merit has no place in tennis or any other sport, and has the unfortunate result of undermining the credibility of the very nature of competition itself.”