Players denounce insults on their Social Media

[Fedeonic]

After the case of Madison Keys, many players, including Diego Schwartzman, Roberto Bautista and Arina Rodionova, now are denouncing their flood of insults they receive on social media.

Diego Schwartzman

Arina Rodionova

https://twitter.com/BautistaAgut/status/891378411721175040
Roberto Bautista

 

[Bartelby]

Maria Sharapova receives all her insults in the mass media and usually from fellow players.

 

[Mainad]

Maria Sharapova receives all her insults in the mass media and usually from fellow players.

Always has to be different, doesn't she?

 

[MasturB]

This is counter to when I watched Roger's periscope Q&A.

The messages were coming in so quick and Roger even said he couldn't read anything because they were going too fast so he just answered whatever he saw.

 

[Bartelby]

On social media you usually get insulted, up until recent events, by nobodies.

The mass media usually has some sort of purpose. In Sharapova's case, it is part of a wider Russophobia.

Always has to be different, doesn't she?

 

[Mainad]

On social media you usually get insulted, up until recent events, by nobodies.

The mass media usually has some sort of purpose. In Sharapova's case, it is part of a wider Russophobia.

So, if she hadn't been Russian, do you think the media would have gone easier on her?

 

[Fedeonic]

In Sharapova's case, it is part of a wider Russophobia.

Kuznetsova and many Russians are well liked by the media.

 

[noobforehand20]

you gotta admire them for being able to shrug off all those insults, remember when you were in highschool and people cnostantly said mean things to you? imagine that everyday despite trying your hardest

 

[tacou]

welll I am an ARod fan now!

 

[Deleted member 688153]

up until recent events

 

[Deleted member 688153]

Kuznetsova and many Russians are well liked by the media.

Pova was too until the recent scandal.

 

[Deleted member 716271]

Wonder how many of these trolls are TT posters?

 

[Gary Duane]

Yikes, I don't even know what happened...

 

[Bartelby]

The political agenda of most liberal media is geared towards a 'face-off' with Russia so if she weren't Russian she'd lose relevance.

The invention of Meldonium was designed to prosecute this 'face-off' with Russia so she has proven a useful tool in the ongoing war to ban Russia from anything and everything.

On the other hand, I don't think she was the most useful tool because she is too Americanised, too pretty, and too modern Russia. But they banned a drug, not individuals.

And Russians are still banned from athletics and the paralympics, even though the drug testing scandal is now well past, because the organisations are run by Britons.

So, if she hadn't been Russian, do you think the media would have gone easier on her?

 

[-NN-]

It's crazy, really. I bet all the top players have had multiple death threats throughout their careers. Maybe even one or two more serious ones and not just semi-troll stuff as shown above. Some of the ill wishes I see in comments in general on youtube or whatnot are just.... there are no words.

 

[Deleted member 716271]

I bet some of the losers saying crazy stuff lost money betting on the player they're raging at

 

[-NN-]

I bet some of the losers saying crazy stuff lost money betting on the player they're raging at

Bet that accounts for an awful lot of it yeah.

Bets, accounts, yeah.

 

[Gazelle]

Why do players even care about those insults.

They should just imagine those are made by fat, acne-ridden ugly people who can't get out of their chair without help. Which they probably are.

 

[Vanhool]

you gotta admire them for being able to shrug off all those insults, remember when you were in highschool and people cnostantly said mean things to you? imagine that everyday despite trying your hardest

I honestly think that's why there are so many headcases these days. It must be very distracting, especially for the women (some of the stuff directed at them is truly sick). Plus, you never know if one of those weirdos might be a violent stalker. I think the younger generation coming up will be better equipped to deal with it because they will be desensitized and used to trolls, sadly.

 

[West Coast Ace]

I bet some of the losers saying crazy stuff lost money betting on the player they're raging at

Probably 99% - pathetic. People need to get a j-o-b. Betting on sports makes day traders look like captains of industry.

 

[Mainad]

Why do players even care about those insults.

They should just imagine those are made by fat, acne-ridden ugly people who can't get out of their chair without help. Which they probably are.

 

[JRAJ1988]

Trolls are like emotional leeches because they don't really have an existence, they don't know what it's like to have friends or loved ones so they have to make other peoples lives a misery to make themselves feel better. They are cowards, spineless parasites.

I detest them with every fiber of my being, you had a bad childhood, well boo hoo, if you've got an issue give me a tissue because that doesn't give you a right to make other peoples lives a misery over the Internet.

You people do know even if you're rich people have committed suicide because of trolling and online abuse.

 

[Tennisanity]

Hey, you live by the sword, you die by the sword.

 

[fundrazer]

Bet that accounts for an awful lot of it yeah.

Bets, accounts, yeah.

This might be one case where the male players that play enough video games are better off. This kinda **** doesn't really bother you when everybody + their grandma is flaming you while playing dota/cod/lol or whatever game.

Also TI7 hype.

 

[TheGhostOfAgassi]

So, if she hadn't been Russian, do you think the media would have gone easier on her?

Wasnt that much writings about it as it could have been.

 

[Gary Duane]

OMG, that is TRULY DISGUSTING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!