World number 10 Barbora Krejcikova has penned down an
emotional letter after being snubbed in the Czech Sportsperson of the Year award.
The annual awards took place on Friday, December 20, where canoeist Josef
Dostal received the award ahead of the 29-year-old.
The decision was a surprising one, considering that Krejcikova
won a Wimbledon title earlier this year after beating Italy’s Jasmine Paolini
in the final with a score of 6-2, 2-6, 6-4. She finished the season on a high
as well. Her last event in 2024 was the WTA Finals in Riyadh, where her journey
came to an end after losing in the semifinal to China’s Qinwen Zheng in straight
sets with a score of 6-3, 7-5.
After the announcement of the Czech Sportsperson of the Year
award, Krejcikova, in a post on her official account on the social media
platform Instagram, expressed her feelings about the development. The Brno-born
congratulated Dostal for winning the award but admitted that the development left
her with ‘mixed feelings’.
"I would like to congratulate Josef Dostal for winning
this year's Athlete of the Year poll, as well as the other athletes awarded,”
she wrote. “However, I have to admit, that the results of the survey left me
with mixed feelings again. I don't understand that if an Olympic medal is a key
criteria, why aren't our Olympic gold winners this year in the top three?
Instead, is Tomas even seventh? And for what reason did Wimbledon beat the
Olympics gold medal a few years ago? I had similar feelings from the results of
the poll in 2021 when, in addition to the Grand Slam title at Roland Garros in
singles and doubles, I won the Olympic gold alongside [Katerina Siniakova], we
won the Tournament champion, and even then it was not enough for the overall
championship. At that moment, I was wondering, what exactly should an athlete
win to deserve this award in the eyes of journalists?”.
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