Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko stated she has initiated authorized motion towards the WTA alleging “ethical abuse” from an unnamed govt of the elite girls’s tour which led to panic assaults and hampered her profession.
Tsurenko, who has talked incessantly in regards to the challenges of competing on the tour since Russia’s invasion, pulled out of a match in 2023 after saying she had a panic assault following a dialog with WTA management about its response to the struggle.
“I spoke about it brazenly and straight,” Tsurenko wrote on social media platform X on Wednesday.
“I attempted to hunt safety and justice inside the WTA. However in response, I confronted indifference and injustice, which led to a chronic ethical decline.”
Reuters has contacted the WTA for remark.
Following her withdrawal from the Indian Wells match in 2023, the WTA responded to her feedback by saying it had “persistently mirrored our full assist for Ukraine and strongly condemn the actions which have been introduced forth by the Russian authorities”.
Tsurenko, 35, wrote that the WTA Tour had turn out to be a “terrifying” and “alien” place for her now.
“Ache, concern, panic assaults, humiliation, withholding info, harassment of my group to silence me … and this is not even the total checklist of what I’ve needed to endure,” she stated.
“The WTA Tour refused to guard a girl, a participant, a human being. As an alternative, the WTA Tour selected to guard an individual in a management place.
“My final probability to defend myself, to face up for my rights, my dignity, and to forestall such acts of violence in sports activities is to hunt justice in court docket.”
