Tennis commentators have reacted with rage after witnessing the Italian Open trophy presentation ceremony descend into an absolute farce on Sunday morning.
Elena Rybakina captured her second WTA 1000 title of 2023 at Foro Italico when Ukrainian opponent Anhelina Kalinina retired with a thigh harm which she had been carrying all week.
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The last was blighted with drama with a rain delay forcing the match to start at 11pm native time.
The contest was stopped with the reigning Wimbledon champion main 6-4 1-0 when Kalinina referred to as it quits shortly after midnight.
The last itself has since been overshadowed by a trophy presentation ceremony that went off the rails.
Tournament organisers appeared to combine up the 2 gamers and referred to as Rybakina to obtain her trophy earlier than the runner-up.
Kalinina additionally needed to stroll to choose up her personal trophy after a clumsy silence the place no one got here ahead to current it.
Tennis followers and commentators across the globe have labelled the scenes disrespectful with the presentation happening in entrance of an virtually empty stadium within the early hours of the morning.
Rybakina clearly didn’t know what was occurring and it was clear match organisers favoured the speeches made by match officers and sponsors.
The chair umpire was additionally given time on the microphone forward of the gamers.
Aussie tennis nice Rennae Stubbs couldn’t consider her eyes.
“Officially the worst trophy presentation I have ever seen, In my life,” she wrote on Twitter.
“Honesty I need to take a Xanax after these last three weeks! What the hell is happening!???”
The few followers left within the stadium have been heard booing because the presentation passed off with many suggesting the boos have been directed on the match officers for permitting such a calamitous last to play out the way in which it did.
She went on to write down: “At some point someone has to take responsibility for the absolute travesties that have been happening.”
It comes after the Madrid Open was pressured to apologise after not permitting the ladies’s doubles finalists to make speeches.
Victoria Azarenka and Beatriz Haddad Maia beat Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff within the ladies’s last weren’t given a microphone to allow them to handle the gang through the trophy shows.
Rybakina, 23, grew to become the primary girl to seize two WTA 1000 titles this season, having already received the celebrated Indian Wells onerous court docket match in March.
She was additionally runner-up on the Australian Open and in Miami and now she is eyeing up the French Open.
With AFP
Source: www.news.com.au
