A storm has erupted on the Madrid Open in any case 4 gamers competing within the ladies’s doubles last have been barred from talking within the aftermath of the match on Monday morning (AEST).
After days of controversy surrounding the event, trophies have been handed out to the profitable pairing of Victoria Azarenka and Beatriz Haddad-Maia in addition to the runners up Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, nevertheless no speeches have been made as is customary.
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Meanwhile the finalists of the lads’s doubles and each singles tournaments have been all given the chance to talk after their respective matches.
The problem was shortly raised on social media by the 4 competing tennis stars, with Tunisia’s World No. 4 Ons Jabeur calling the incident “sad and unacceptable”.
American World No. 6 Gauff was fuming in regards to the incident, and shared a part of the message she had ready for her speech on Twitter.
“Wasn’t given the chance to speak after the final today. But thank you to the fans for supporting us and women’s tennis this week! Thanks (Jessica Pegula) for always keeping it fun on the court and hitting unreal clutch shots hahahaha Lastly, big congratulations Vika and Bia.
“Also thanks to my team and Jess’s team of course!
“Also for the ball kids, tournament staff, and everyone else who works hard behind the scenes.
“Twitter format doesn’t allow me to say everything I would’ve said during the speech if we had one. But just wanted to say I’m thankful.”
Australian nice Rennae Stubbs was livid over the choice to silence the celebrities of the sport and took purpose at organisers in a scathing publish.
American World No. 3 Pegula retweeted Gauff’s message alongside a zipped mouth emoji, whereas Belarusian World No. 16 Azarenka wrote that it will be laborious to elucidate to her son “that mommy isn’t able to say hello to him at the trophy ceremony”.
While event organisers have given no indication as to why the 4 feminine stars have been muzzled, the incident does come after days of controversy surrounding the event together with a debate over a discrepancy within the dimension of the muffins handed out to female and male winners and outrage surrounding the event’s choice to make use of fashions rather than ball youngsters for some matches.
Moreover, World No. 1 Iga Swiatek seemingly enraged event director Feliciano Lopez after being defeated within the Madrid Open last on Sunday morning (AEST) by Aryna Sabalenka.
After a two-and-a-half-hour late-night marathon, Swiatek stole the limelight as she delivered a clip to event organisers throughout her runners up speech.
The 21-year-old hit out on the Madrid Open scheduling that noticed her end a number of video games after midnight within the lead as much as the ultimate.
“It’s not fun to play at 1am though,” Swiatek stated.
“I’m happy anyway I was able to get past this experience and survive and be in the final.”
The remarks didn’t sit properly with Lopez who appeared supremely sad in regards to the criticism whereas standing behind Swiatek on the trophy presentation.
The Madrid Open additionally copped a hammering final week because of a discrepancy within the dimension of the muffins handed out to the female and male singles winners.
Belarus born Sabalenka, 25, was given a single-tier cake after defeating Swiatek, whereas Spanish star Alcaraz, 20, was given a multi-tier cake that needed to be held up by a number of folks for the picture alternative.
Canadian World No. 27 Bianca Andreescu couldn’t consider what she was seeing.
“That doesn’t look right,” she wrote.
Some followers have been left fuming over the optics of each winners being introduced muffins of vastly totally different sizes, nevertheless others stated their was no problem as they identified Alcaraz was taking part in in his dwelling nation because the hometown hero.
“I see a lot of people losing their minds over this. And believe me, I am a huge advocate for women’s right and women’s tennis and gender equality and equity. But I think this isn’t ‘men vs women’. It’s Spaniard vs non Spaniard. It’s that simple,” one wrote.
Others have been fast to level out that rising star Holger Rune was given a cake after celebrating his birthday through the event, just like the one given to Sabalenka.
Tournament director Feliciano Lopez hit again on the criticism as he responded to the criticism.
“I’m surprised by this reaction after this gesture! 1. Carlos had just won his match to reach the final. 2. He was playing on centre court. 3. The tournament is played in Spain, even though it is an international event. PS: I hope Rune wasn’t also upset by his treatment,” he wrote.
Source: www.news.com.au
