Mirra Andreeva on the preparations for the RG final against Maja Chwalinska:
"We spent 1 hour and 20 minutes doing exactly what she does in matches. At one point I started thinking, "Am I going to play against some kind of monster or what?"😂
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She’s so right , sabalenka has an arrogance to her where she thinks she has to win every single point and her opponent needs to roll over and when that doesn’t happen she gets pissed and self sabotages. She needs to realise whether it’s 6-0 or 7-6 it’s still a WIN!
anyway many good points made about that rancid little rat already and i honestly hope people can stop with their insulting comments of “x should save tennis from him” or “y saved tennis by beating him” now
@friso_jongsma like i don’t think it means much to discuss whether x player posted a story for him and y player didn’t, ultimately we should be talking about how he’s been enabled to continue playing and getting positive media attention
@friso_jongsma i think it’s def valid to be angry/disappointed in ppl who are congratulating him but this excessive scrutiny on individual players’ behaviour towards him imo is disingenuous and feels like stan wars, and shifts the focus away from his crime and actions
because quite frankly, people never ever treated this with the gravity it deserved. fun guy to dunk on basically, and not that it’s wrong to dunk on him (quite the opposite), but giggling at him choking was never useful opposition to the systemic protection of abusive men.