McEnroe and Navratilova ask to change the name of the Margaret Court track and investigate them

John McEnroe and Martina Navratilova, two legends of tennis, appeared Tuesday on the 1573 track of the Australian Open with a banner wherein the legend “Evonne Goolagong Area” was handwritten. The reason being that each requested the day earlier than it was modified the name of the discipline that bears the name of former Australian participant Margaret Court, the second in significance of the event after the Rod Laver. The legendary People imagine that it’s not truthful for an individual to criticize homosexuality to be acknowledged in Melbourne Park.

Navratilova, married to the mannequin Julia Lemigova since 2014, learn an open letter calling on the authorities to perform the name change and put the Goolagong, an aboriginal former winner of seven Grand Slams and who was primary in the world and is a member of the Worldwide Tennis Corridor of Fame. The US nationalized Czech believes that some manifestations of Court “are extraordinarily dangerous to the LGTBI group” and that the legends of the sport that give name to sure services are often “on the proper facet of the story,” and that “Court doesn’t belong to that class.” It isn’t the first time Martina asks for the elimination of naming of the track, he already did it in 2017, when Court vetoed the Qantas airline as a result of its president was homosexual and supported same-sex marriages.

For this conduct, McEnroe and Navratilova are being investigated and might be fined, since the Australian Open, which makes it clear that it helps “the range, inclusion and proper of folks to have their very own imaginative and prescient, in addition to their proper to categorical that opinion,” says the event “has laws and protocols concerning how any fan, participant or visitor can use the services, the occasion and the world situation it affords, to guarantee its integrity. ”