Russian tennis player Svetlana Kuznetsova, champion of the 2004 US Open and 2009 Roland Garros, made some controversial statements during an Instagram live, in which he confessed that, in his opinion, the women's circuit has lost level in recent years.
Kuznetsova was emphatic when launching this statement and even confessed that she does not know which players are in the Top-10 positions in the WTA ranking at the moment. “I don't want to offend anyone, but the level of the WTA circuit has decreased. Not long ago we had several world class players, but now I don't even know who is in the Top-10 of the ranking. The level loss has been very high. And it's not because the mid-level players are close to the leaders, but rather the opposite. “
The 34-year-old Russian, who became number 2 in the world in 2007, currently occupies the 32nd position in the ranking and continues on her way back to the tennis elite, as demonstrated in the Qatar Total Open before the stoppage due to the coronavirus, where she fell in the semifinals of the tournament against Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka, in the end the tournament champion.