Victoria Azarenka has described the Madrid Open’s decision to silence players by cancelling their speeches after the women’s doubles final as ‘unacceptable’
to find out that they would not be allowed to address the audience. Following public criticism from Gauff and Pegula, the tournament’s chief executive, Gerard Tsobanian, apologised. He has not, however, offered any reason for the decision.
“We are working internally and with the WTA to review our protocols and are committed to improving our process moving forward. We made a mistake and this will not ever happen again.” “I got the apology letter from IMG. I have seen the statement from the tournament today, which was made by the CEO, that we got a direct apology. I don’t know if he meant [he directly apologised] to me because I didn’t - that didn’t happen, if we want to be clear,” said Azarenka. “But I don’t know what it meant so I don’t want to take it out of context.”
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