This is why personal security is so important and should aways be vetted and provided by the organizations that make money off of these players. She should have a veteran CAG, DEVGRU, SAS, or other professional turned security with her at all times.
I can't think of any other popular sport where a world class athlete was stabbed during a match. I'm sure what happened to Monica Seles weighs on every tennis player every time they step onto the court.
Go Emma! She competed bravely after that. She’s already won a U.S. Open. I hope there’s more success to come, but I hope that peace of mind comes with it.
The biggest disgust about it is how the media downplayed the stalker's acts as just "fixated behaviour", it was STALKING, an invasion of her life, the media just let stuff like this slide when a woman is the victim....
Glad to know the WTA took this seriously and expelled the man. But what now? Is she going to have to hire private security? So many professional women have to put up with this.
I hate that the article contains a tweet with video of her clearly in distress. I realize that it's being televised, but for fucks sake, sharing that is unnecessary (not your fault, obvs)
If only Dubai could have arrested the creep. But, alas, they’re too busy arresting people for being gay. Would be awesome if they’d stop hosting world tournaments there….
Dubai is possibly the worst "city" on the planet. The entire area is the worlds' money pit as trillions of dollars have been wasted on stupid ego projects.
The headline I'm waiting for is
"Malleable room temperature superconductor developed"
That announcement will herald a new dawn for humanity as commercial fusion power will ACUTUALLY be "five years away".
Fuck yeah. Only, tbh, we’re already generating a smidge more than it has taken to light it off, and the other day someone ran their reactor at plasma temps for 22 continuous minutes.
I think we’re already nearly there for it to be a net positive in terms of wattage.
Unfortunately, that is still basically only a proof of concept. Actually extracting energy from the plasma is another giant engineering hurdle, although Hellion Energy is using rather unique approach.
He was arrested in Dubai, but Emma dropped the charges. He has been banned from all WTA events and given a restraining order. Still shouldn't have got into the stands after Emma reported it to WTA officials though.
The fact that the organization to this day continues to ignore the security risk against its players is a slap in the face. We have already had one tennis player in the 90s stabbed literally in the back how many more women need to be victims before action is actually taken to protect these players!
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I am near tears for her.
Sounds familiar...
I am honestly thirsting for the day when the rest of the world cuts oil and never has to listen to that part of the world ever again.
"Malleable room temperature superconductor developed"
That announcement will herald a new dawn for humanity as commercial fusion power will ACUTUALLY be "five years away".
I think we’re already nearly there for it to be a net positive in terms of wattage.
you aren’t the special one
she’s afraid of you and you can’t see it
and you know i ain’t talking to george here