Barbora Krejcikova has criticised “unprofessional commentary” concerning her look on the US TV community Tennis Channel.
The Wimbledon champion was participating within the WTA Finals in Saudi Arabia this week, the fruits to the common ladies’s season, the place she misplaced to Zheng Qinwen within the semi-finals on Friday.
Apparently not conscious he was on air, Jon Wertheim, a distinguished American tennis journalist, stated of Krejcikova: “Who do you suppose I’m? Barbora Krejcikova? Take a look at the brow when Krejcikova and Zheng take the court docket.”
The clip was circulated on social media, and in response the Czech wrote on X: “You might need heard concerning the latest feedback made on Tennis Channel through the WTA Finals protection that targeted on my look reasonably than my efficiency. As an athlete who has devoted herself to this sport, it was disappointing to see the sort of unprofessional commentary. This isn’t the primary time one thing like that is taking place in sports activities world.
“I’ve typically chosen to not communicate up, however I imagine it’s time to deal with the necessity for respect and professionalism in sports activities media. These moments distract from the true essence of sport and the dedication all athletes deliver to the sphere. I really like tennis deeply, and I wish to see it represented in a manner that honours the dedication we make to compete at this degree.”
It’s not the primary time a broadcaster has been criticised for feedback made a few feminine tennis participant’s look. In 2013, the BBC apologised after presenter John Inverdale stated of the French participant Marion Bartoli after she had received Wimbledon: “Do you suppose Bartoli’s dad advised her when she was little: ‘You’re by no means going to be a looker, you’ll by no means be a [Maria] Sharapova, so you must be scrappy and battle’?”
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