Svitolina receives threats and abuse after Montreal loss — photo
Ukrainian tennis star Elina Svitolina exited the WTA 1000 tournament in Montreal after a quarterfinal defeat to Naomi Osaka.
Following the match, Ukraine’s No. 1 player revealed that she received a flood of angry and threatening messages from online sports bettors.
Svitolina addressed the haters directly on social media:
“To all the bettors: I am a mother first, and only then an athlete. The way you speak to women, to mothers — it’s a disgrace," she wrote.
"If your moms saw the messages you send, they’d be ashamed of you.”
Another Ukrainian athlete Marta Kostyuk was also forced to withdraw from her match at the same tournament due to injury.
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