Pegula received death threats after exiting the French Open

On June 5, Beijing time, the WTA current world No. 3 Pegula revealed on his personal social media platform that he received death threats after exiting the French Open. A few days ago, Pegula was upset in the fourth round of the French Open by local dark horse Boisson and stopped in the women's singles round of 16.

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"These gamblers are simply crazy and delusional." Pegula wrote in her IG Stories, "I turned off the direct message function and deliberately closed the comment section during the game, but they always have a way to run to my feed and leave a message. I didn't take this kind of thing very seriously before, but can other sports suffer as much online violence as we do? I really want to know, because at the moment, it seems that this chaos is mainly focused on tennis, which is really disturbing. ”

Pegula showed some of the malicious comments: someone spoke ill of her, calling her a "garbage can"; Someone else mocked, "Stop playing tennis and spend your father's money!" You're simply the most useless TOP10 player of all time." What's more, even her late dog Tucker has been targeted, and someone has left a message saying, "Tucker would be better off without you as a loser." Someone even cursed: "Can't wait to see karma come back to you, hoping that your first child will be stillborn." ”

"Everyone on the Tour is going through this and it's terrible. Those were just the tip of the iceberg, and I was often cursed with cancer in my family to die, which was ridiculous. "I've seen other sports make headlines about comments, attacks, physical threats and stalking, but let's be honest, tennis players are 100 times more vicious." As long as the outcome of the game is related to their bets, whether we win or lose, the abuse will come in a flood and there will be no stopping. ”

(Text: Felix, Photo: Visual China)