She’s right in a general sense but I also think she’s specifically referring to how she’s treated by polish media. Every single time she gets a little frustrated they comment on it as if she has lost her mind and every single time she loses there are experts saying this is because “her head wasn’t there”. Hubi also sometimes gets frustrated on court but he is never criticised for it (not that he should be) and the only negative comments he gets are that he’s too nice.
Tennis journalists in Poland are mainly frustrated old men who hate women’s tennis and later in this interview she even calls out specific people who criticised her saying they don’t know anything about her life. To give some perspective one of these men is a eurosport commentator who during RG muchova/sabalenka match went on a rant about how women’s tennis is interesting because some of the players are hot and no one wants to watch women’s hockey because “there is nothing to look at”.
They also obsessively hate her sports psychologist to a point that it gets weird. She adresses it in this interview as well and it’s a great read. It’s in polish but google translate is pretty accurate so here’s the link if you’re interested: interview
She is very thoughtful and reasonable in that interview. She very correctly called out her critics as people with no insight, who stand to gain from click bait articles.
Yeah I don’t know why people here are assuming she’s talking about Western English-speaking media. I suppose it’s just the Western lens (“Everything is about me and if it isn’t I’ll make it about me”), but it’s clear that the situation in Poland is very different.
She’s right in a general sense but I also think she’s specifically referring to how she’s treated by polish media. Every single time she gets a little frustrated they comment on it as if she has lost her mind and every single time she loses there are experts saying this is because “her head wasn’t there”. Hubi also sometimes gets frustrated on court but he is never criticised for it (not that he should be) and the only negative comments he gets are that he’s too nice.
Tennis journalists in Poland are mainly frustrated old men who hate women’s tennis and later in this interview she even calls out specific people who criticised her saying they don’t know anything about her life. To give some perspective one of these men is a eurosport commentator who during RG muchova/sabalenka match went on a rant about how women’s tennis is interesting because some of the players are hot and no one wants to watch women’s hockey because “there is nothing to look at”.
They also obsessively hate her sports psychologist to a point that it gets weird. She adresses it in this interview as well and it’s a great read. It’s in polish but google translate is pretty accurate so here’s the link if you’re interested: interview
She is very thoughtful and reasonable in that interview. She very correctly called out her critics as people with no insight, who stand to gain from click bait articles.
Yeah I don’t know why people here are assuming she’s talking about Western English-speaking media. I suppose it’s just the Western lens (“Everything is about me and if it isn’t I’ll make it about me”), but it’s clear that the situation in Poland is very different.