GoodBYE WTA!!!! You're being so unfair to Rybakina. 😤😡
“Doesn’t make sense”: Tennis fans expressed anger after introduction of ‘performance byes’ system for Tokyo Open main round draw
WTASunday, 24 September 2023 at 08:00
Tennis fans have expressed their protest after the introduction
of the ‘performance byes’ system in the draw system.
The new system has been used for the upcoming 2023 Tokyo
Open singles draw where the third-seed Kazakhstan’s Elena Rybakina has been put
in an unfavourable position.
The 24-year-old will face Czech Republic’s Linda Noskova in
the opening round of the competition whereas fourth and fifth-seeded players — Greece’s
Maria Sakkari and France’s Caroline Garcia—will qualify straight to the second
round.
That outcome left the tennis fans unimpressed and they
shared their thoughts on social media platform X — previously known as Twitter.
The ‘performance byes’ system awards the players for their
performances leading up to the competition.
Rybakina has not played any professional tennis since her disappointing outing at the US Open 2023.
The 2022 Wimbledon champion was knocked out from the fourth
and final Grand Slam of the year after losing to Romania’s Sorana Cirstea in
the third round with a score of 6-3, 7-6, 6-4.
On the other hand, Sakkari and Garcia faced off in the semifinal
of the WTA 1000 Guadalajara Open on Saturday where the former came out on top in
straight sets with a score of 6-3, 6-0. Sakkari even went on to win the Guadalajara Open.
Nope. Just stop the byes. This doesn’t make sense
Main draw in Tokyo (WTA 500), where Iga Swiatek, Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina and Maria Sakkari are the top seeds. Tokyo is trialing performance byes. Two were allocated to Guadalajara semifinalists Caroline Garcia and Maria Sakkari, after their seeded positions were drawn.
Sums up Rybakina’s year of being the unluckiest player. Seems to have had a lot of weird things go against her that are out of her control
So why does iga Swiatek get a bye?
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