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The Madrid Open's administrators apologize for preventing the women's doubles champions from giving remarks

Posted : 11 May 2023
The "unacceptable decision" to prevent the women's doubles finals from giving presentation statements has been apologized for by the Madrid Open officials to the competitors and spectators.
 
Beatriz Haddad and Victoria Azarenka on Sunday, Maia defeated Americans Jessica Pegula and Coco Gauff 6-1, 6-4.
 
Following their matches, the winners of the men's doubles and singles competitions all addressed the crowd.
 
The four affected players have reportedly received a personal apology from the organizers.
 
"We sincerely apologise to all the players and fans who expect more of the Mutua Madrid Open tournament.” Tournament chief executive Gerard Tsobanian said
 
"Not giving our women's doubles finalists the chance to address their fans at the end of the match was unacceptable and we have apologised directly to Victoria, Beatriz, Coco and Jessica.
 
"We are working internally and with the WTA (Women's Tennis Association) to review our protocols and are committed to improving our process moving forward. We made a mistake and this will not ever happen again."
 
 
The verdict was deemed "disappointing" by Pegula, who also questioned "what century everyone was living in," and "unacceptable" by Belarus' Azarenka.
 
"There's a lot of conversations, obviously, internally, of what happened and I want to see how that develops and what are the consequences of those decisions," Azarenka said.
"So that's why I don't want to make too many comments.
 
"I believe to give people the opportunity to figure out what's the best course of action. Do I think it's unacceptable? It's absolutely unacceptable."
 
The Professional Tennis Players' Association said the players had been denied "the right to freedom of expression".
 
The women's tour's governing organisation, the WTA, has not responded.
 
Following criticism of the ball girls' attire and the disparity in size between the birthday cakes given to men's champion Carlos Alcaraz and women's champion Aryna Sabalenka, the event led to more claims of sexism at the clay-court competition.

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