Caroline Garcia denounces serious insults received for losing: “I wish you die of cancer”

Caroline Garcia determined to share within the social networks the serious insults she received after her defeat final Tuesday towards Italy's Fiona Ferro within the St. Petersburg match. The French 26 and 46th on the earth made public the expletives, sadly frequent in tennis, by punters indignant at their defeat by 7-5, 3-6, and 6-3, considerably unexpectedly, towards a rival much less rating, however not too low (58th).

“I hope you die of most cancers,” one of these sad followers wrote. “You’re a depressing loser, a disgrace for the game,” mentioned one other softer assault. “Get out of tennis, bitch; your father (additionally a coach) is a bastard”, was one other of the insults that included her and her household, and that features the French portal RMC Sport. The reality is that Garcia goes by means of a nasty second of kind and that’s the solely motive for his defeats.

This apply is our each day bread in tennis and lots of gamers complain about it, like Roberto Bautista, one of probably the most belligerent towards what he regards as a scourge for the game of racket: betting. “Each time we lose a recreation we obtain threats, insults, messages that actually scare. The worst factor is to get to a locker room and skim all these expletives,” he mentioned in an interview with AS. Gael Monfils additionally mentioned he had received threats after shedding to Italian Jannik Sinner in Antwerp, though he took it with humor.