Hasnain says:

I haven’t been following sports (nor tennis) much in the last few years so this may be ignorant... but to me it seems like the tournament organizers are very clearly wrong and this will backfire. They haven’t done any self introspection on the mental health issues caused by press interviews, made a very disgraceful tweet (now deleted, but the internet has a long memory), and said she’d be fined - and when she said she’s ok with paying the fine, proceeded to go with a ban unless she relented.

It seems like the players do have more power than the tournament organizers - and they should! - and it doesn’t seem like the tournament organizers are realizing how this can backfire.

“"So here in Paris I was already feeling vulnerable and anxious, so I thought it was better to exercise self-care and skip the press conferences. I announced it preemptively because I do feel like the rules are quite outdated in parts and I wanted to highlight that.”

Posted on 2021-05-31T19:05:16+0000