(Provided by Tennis World USA)
World No 3 Jessica Pegula called out the French Open organizers over their selection of the night session matches at this year’s tournament. Last year, the men featured in the majority of primetime night session matches at Roland Garros.
This year, only one of 10 primetime matches was a WTA match. After scheduling six ATP matches through the first six primetime night session matches, the French Open organizers faced criticism.- with some accusing the organizers of very openly preferring ATP over WTA matches.
For the seventh primetime night session match, the French Open organizers scheduled world No 2 Aryna Sabalenka and 2017 US Open champion Sloane Stephens.
Pegula ‘disappointed’ with the French Open night session selection
“Only one of the 10 night sessions featured WTA players – that was when Aryna Sabalenka played Sloane Stephens in the fourth round on Sunday.
We want to see more women in those spots, to highlight good tennis matches if we can, so it hasn’t been ideal that there has only been one primetime match for us. I’m a member of the WTA players’ council and this issue has been raised a lot.
Last year, when there was also only one women’s night match, we spoke to…
