Insults and harassment are real scourges of “social” networks in our time. In the world of tennis, players are very regularly targeted with insults and threats after their victories and defeats. Regardless of the result, if it is not to the taste of sports bettors, tennis players and tennis women are bombarded with shameful messages.
This practice is regularly denounced, and this time it is the turn ofElise Mertens to share a small anthology of messages received after his last match, a defeat in the quarter-finals in Saint-Petersburg against Sakkari. The violence of the words is quite bewildering and totally unacceptable. “I hope you die garbage” “I wish you get cancer and die” “stop playing tennis” and so many others even more vulgar and unacceptable.
These messages are now legion in the world of tennis. Players or their community managers spend their time blocking these individuals, who create new accounts to circumvent the problem. Scandalized by these messages, Ysaline Bonaventure has regularly denounced them. She had suggested linking the creation of an account on social networks to an identity card. The message obviously does not reach the high authorities of the various networks, which will nevertheless one day have to take measures to calm this type of behavior and put an end to the current impunity.
