Serena Wiliams leaves the press conference in tears after being knocked out at the Australian Open by Naomi Osaka.
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It is a well-known fact that there is not, to put it mildly, good relations between the Romanian billionaire Ion Tiriac, to whom the Madrid company belongs, and one of the best tennis players of all time. This is due to his indiscriminate comments on the address of the 39-year-old American woman.
“At this age and with the weight it has, it is no longer moving as well as it did fifteen years ago. Serena used to be a sensational player. But if she had a little decency, she would end her career. For many reasons, “the 81-year-old former elite player, manager and successful businessman embarked on the winner of 23 grand slams in singles in an interview with Romanian television at the beginning of the year.
The billionaire leaned against Serena: The weight and age? If she had a little decency, she would be done
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And he didn’t do something like that for the first time. He also criticized the playing legend a few years ago in Germany. “With all due respect. She is 36 years old and weighs 90 kilos. I expect something a little different from a woman, “he said at the time.
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Tennis star Serena Williams posed on the court with her daughter Olympia.
Her husband Alexis Ohanian defended herself against this year’s attack on Serena Williams via social networks. “I think we can safely say that no one cares what Tiriac thinks,” wrote Ohanian, who said of Tiriac that he was a “racist and sexist clown.”
He then also recalled that, unlike his wife, Tiriac has no grand slam title. “I had to find it, but it seems that my three-year-old daughter also has more grand slam titles than he does,” he wrote in exaggeration.
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Serena Williams in overalls.
Even after this ranged firefight, many took it for granted that Tiriac could say goodbye to Serena Willams’ participation in Madrid. And so it will probably happen.
Williams, the current world number eight, on the other hand, is registered for the tournament in Rome, which is scheduled just after Madrid. Although she has not officially confirmed this, it is very likely that she is not going to the Spanish capital just because of Ion Tiriac.
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