Elena Rybakina called out “a weak WTA leadership” after she apparently “picked up some injuries” due to scheduling in Montreal. At 02:55 local time on Saturday morning, Rybakina concluded her Montreal quarterfinal win over Daria Kasatkina.
That same day, Rybakina was scheduled to play Liudmila Samsonova in the Montreal semifinal. But due to a rain delay, Rybakina’s Montreal semifinal match was pushed back to Sunday. On Sunday, Rybakina finally took to the court and made a strong start before Samsonova came back to win 1-6 6-1 6-2.
After the match, Rybakina called out the WTA as she wasn’t happy at all that she went to sleep at around 5 am on Saturday morning.
Rybakina hits out at ‘a weak WTA leadership’
“Definitely I feel destroyed just because of the scheduling and the whole situation.
I’m not really happy about it, but yeah, it is what it is. Unfortunately, players cannot do much in these situations. The decision is not really ours. Weather was not helpful. So I picked up some injuries I would say, but we tried to manage it and see how we will go from that.
It’s the first time when the match went I think that long, and we finished also so late. It’s the first time and hopefully the last time…
