FBI present at Indian Wells to monitor Social Media abuse

The FBI will be present at BNP Paribas Open Indian Wells in order to monitor social media abuse aimed at players it has been announced in a memo sent to both those involved and support team members.

Previously players such as Madison Keys and Sloane Stephens have spoken about this and especially in the case of the latter have said they have received over 2,000 messages of abuse post US Open.

There will now be the presence of the FBI to monitor and also address this with the tournament set to start on Thursday 7 October through to Sunday, 17 October.

Ben Rothenberg, a prominant tennis journalist was among those to share this memo and said it was 'sad that it's come to this in tennis'.