The Mutua Madrid Open has apologized for muting girls’s doubles finalists—and guarantees it gained’t occur once more.
Mutua Madrid Open CEO Gerard Tsobanian issued an apology to all 4 girls’s doubles finalists—Victoria Azarenka, Beatriz Haddad Maia, Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff—who weren’t permitted to talk after the Mutua Madrid Open doubles finals in addition to tennis followers.
The transfer sparked widespread criticism and prices of sexism as followers identified males’s doubles finalists had been permitted to talk.
Event officers vow the silencing snafu won’t ever occur once more.
“We sincerely apologise to all of the gamers and followers who count on extra of the Mutua Madrid Open match. Not giving our girls’s doubles finalists the possibility to handle their followers on the finish of the match was unacceptable and we’ve got apologised on to Victoria, Beatriz… (1/2)
— #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) Could 11, 2023
…Coco and Jessica. We’re working internally and with the WTA to overview our protocols and are dedicated to enhancing our course of transferring ahead. We made a mistake and this won’t ever occur once more.”
Gerard Tsobanian, CEO of the Mutua Madrid Open
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— #MMOPEN (@MutuaMadridOpen) Could 11, 2023
“We sincerely apologize to all of the gamers and followers who count on extra of the Mutua Madrid Open match,” Gerard Tsobanian stated in a press release. “Not giving our girls’s doubles finalists the possibility to handle their followers on the finish of the match was unacceptable and we’ve got apologized on to Victoria, Beatriz, Coco and Jessica.
“We’re working internally and with the WTA to overview our protocols and are dedicated to enhancing our course of transferring ahead. We made a mistake and this won’t ever occur once more.”
