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'Hate': Why locker room turned on Aus Open champ - CtrlF.XYZ

'Hate': Why locker room turned on Aus Open champ

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Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka has revealed she has been subjected to "hate" from her chap players implicit the penetration of Ukraine.

The Belarussian has been playing arsenic a neutral jock since Russia and Belarus declared warfare connected Ukraine successful 2022.

"It was truly pugnacious to recognize that there's truthful galore radical who hatred maine for nary reason," said Sabalenka.

"I did nothing."

"It was truly pugnacious for maine due to the fact that I've ne'er faced that overmuch hatred successful the locker room," she added.

"There are a batch of haters connected Instagram erstwhile you're losing matches, but successful the locker country I've ne'er faced that.

"I had some, not similar fights, but I had immoderate weird conversations with, not the girls, but with members of their team. It was tough. It was [a] pugnacious period. But, present it's getting better."

Sabalenka conceded that determination is inactive a disagreement successful the locker country betwixt players with loyalties connected some sides of the conflict.

"I was truly struggling with that due to the fact that I truly felt bad, similar I did thing and it's inactive not truthful bully successful the locker country with immoderate of the Ukrainian girls," she said.

"But past I realised that it's not my responsibility and I did thing atrocious to them. And I'm beauteous definite that the remainder of the Russian and Belarusian athletes did thing to Ukrainians.

"I conscionable realised that this is each emotions and I conscionable request to similar disregard it and absorption connected myself with knowing that I did thing bad. And I cannot power emotions of others.

"It seems like, everyone's conscionable ignoring each other. Not everyone actually, I'm inactive talking to immoderate of the Ukrainians, but determination are immoderate of the girls who are similar truly assertive against us. So I'm conscionable staying distant from that."

Sabalenka's comments travel conscionable weeks aft Ukraine's Lesia Tsurenko pulled retired of the pair's scheduled 3rd circular lucifer astatine Indian Wells, citing a panic onslaught aft discussing the sport's effect to the warfare with WTA brag Steve Simon.

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