(Provided by Tennis World USA)
Belarusian tennis star Aryna Sabalenka claims a coach of a Ukrainian player told her straight in the face he was so happy after she lost a match on the WTA Tour. Sabalenka was disturbed by the incident and she went to the WTA office to report the incident.
According to Sabalenka, the coach followed her and accused her of “throwing the bombs” on Ukraine. “One day a coach of a Ukrainian player told me ‘I’m glad you lost.’ I went to the WTA office. I cried like a baby, unable to speak.
He followed me and shouted that I was throwing the bombs. We don’t support war. So what do you expect from us? That we shout ‘no war’?” Sabalenka told L’Equipe.
Sabalenka had to defend herself after being called out by a Ukrainian coach
In March – in the Indian Wells third round – Sabalenka was scheduled to meet Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko.
But the match wasn’t played as Tsurenko gave a walkover after reportedly suffering a panic attack before the match. Shortly after, Tsurenko’s coach Nikita Vlasov accused Sabalenka of supporting the Belarusian regime and also said that people like Sabalenka are to blame for the situation in Ukraine.
Sabalenka responded by claiming…
