World No.198 Natalija Stevanovic of Serbia opened up for the first time to show the abuse tennis players face regularly, regardless of whether they win or lose. This kind of online bullying has been a problem in the WTA world for a long time and it doesn’t seem to be getting any better.
After losing in the final round of qualifying to American world No.348 Maria
Mateas 6-3 7-5 at the Guadalajara Open AKRON, Stevanovic received a series of threatening, abusive and curse messages.
The most graphic one Stevanovic received in her DMs and it is exceptionally disturbing (mind you, the original is even more explicit than the English translation below):
Read this message carefully, you rude piece of trash.