The Wta Tour and its locker rooms are not currently in the calmest state and the world no. 1, Iga Swiatek, acknowledged it.
With many top Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian players, the atmosphere on the Wta Tour is very tense. Only recently, the world no. 2 from Belarus, Aryna Sabalenka, has spoken out against facing hate in the locker room. Her initial claims were denied by Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, but the later revealed comments from the Ukrainian shed a different light on the situation.
In one of her interviews, Kostyuk said that she would like to harm Russian and Belarusian players physically and the tennis world was left stunned by this statement. Moreover, the statements by the Wta CEO Steve Simon, after which Ukrainian player Lesia Tsurenko had a panic attack and withdrew from the Indian Wells also didn't help.
Now, speaking to the BBC, Iga Swiatek shared her honest perspective on...
With many top Ukrainian, Russian, and Belarusian players, the atmosphere on the Wta Tour is very tense. Only recently, the world no. 2 from Belarus, Aryna Sabalenka, has spoken out against facing hate in the locker room. Her initial claims were denied by Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk, but the later revealed comments from the Ukrainian shed a different light on the situation.
In one of her interviews, Kostyuk said that she would like to harm Russian and Belarusian players physically and the tennis world was left stunned by this statement. Moreover, the statements by the Wta CEO Steve Simon, after which Ukrainian player Lesia Tsurenko had a panic attack and withdrew from the Indian Wells also didn't help.
Now, speaking to the BBC, Iga Swiatek shared her honest perspective on...
- 4/6/2023
- Tennis-Infinity
I was going to celebrate this Cinco De Mayo the same way I did St. Patrick's Day, with reverence, respect and photogenic actors. However, the internet is not bearing any fruit when it comes to a satisfactory list of Good Looking Mexicanos. Any list that has Uma Thurman but neither Diego Luna nor Gael García Bernal is a list I cannot get behind. So, well, we'll have to make do with this. (Salma Hayek)
There are scads of ways in which I am ignorant about other cultures, mis amigitos. I do know, however, that I probably shouldn't tell you that I refer to this holiday as Cinco De Puke-o. Right? That's fairly insensitive. I also had no idea that May 1st was an international day of protests and workers rights. No clue. I thought it was all about jumping over fires and sex with randos. Well, regardless, please take a...
There are scads of ways in which I am ignorant about other cultures, mis amigitos. I do know, however, that I probably shouldn't tell you that I refer to this holiday as Cinco De Puke-o. Right? That's fairly insensitive. I also had no idea that May 1st was an international day of protests and workers rights. No clue. I thought it was all about jumping over fires and sex with randos. Well, regardless, please take a...
- 5/5/2011
- by Joanna Robinson
In what is bound to be one of the best looking indie movies to be made anytime soon, David Boreanaz will be starring with Stephen Dorff, Dominic Purcell, Stephen Lang and James Woods in Officer Down.
In a study that is complex enough for me to completely screw up with a summary, new research shows that young black gay and bisexual men are up to five times more likely to contract HIV than other groups. In a sure to be controversial hypothesis, the researchers suggest that the higher rate of infection among young black gay men is due to this group strongly preferring "dominant masculine partners," while also equating masculinity with lower HIV risk.
Desperate Housewives star Ricardo Chavira (Carlos) was arrested for suspicion of DUI. Considering he’s currently involved in a storyline about Andrew accidentally killing his TV mother with a car on the show, it seems slightly ironic.
In a study that is complex enough for me to completely screw up with a summary, new research shows that young black gay and bisexual men are up to five times more likely to contract HIV than other groups. In a sure to be controversial hypothesis, the researchers suggest that the higher rate of infection among young black gay men is due to this group strongly preferring "dominant masculine partners," while also equating masculinity with lower HIV risk.
Desperate Housewives star Ricardo Chavira (Carlos) was arrested for suspicion of DUI. Considering he’s currently involved in a storyline about Andrew accidentally killing his TV mother with a car on the show, it seems slightly ironic.
- 5/4/2011
- by Ed Kennedy
- The Backlot
The airport security crisis reached staggering new heights last night when a YouTube video of a terrified three-year-old girl getting frisked by the Tsa went viral. The clip was quickly removed (commenters claim conspiracy) but then something even crazier happened: a CW news reporter named Steve Simon went on the air with the clip at Kiah-tv in Houston, Texas and said that the girl is his daughter... and that he could only stand by in horror and watch his daughter scream herself hoarse. (Yes, he could have intervened, but what would the alternative have been? Putting her through the radiation machine? Canceling at least three plane tickets and leaving the airport?) Here's the clip from the broadcast, during which Simon is noticeably calm and in total "cheery TV news guy" mode, but that may be because he knows his daughter actually got off easy. As I [...]...
- 11/16/2010
- Nerve
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