Ajla Tomljanovic has revealed she receives \u201cdisgusting and scary\u201d online abuse every day, and that social media companies have dismissed her complaints.<\/p>\n
The Australian said she tried not to read the messages, but succumbed in \u201cmoments when I want to torture myself\u201d.<\/p>\n
Tomljanovic, a three-time grand slam quarter-finalist, is set for a Prudential Hong Kong Open second-round clash with seventh-seeded Sorana Cirstea of Romania.<\/p>\n
The 32-year-old, who has had \u201cdeath wished on my family\u201d by anonymous correspondents, was talking four months after British player Katie Boulter said she was regularly subjected to online threats and insults.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s horrible, I don\u2019t know how someone can write the things we receive,\u201d Tomljanovic told the Post. \u201cIt\u2019s daily, when we\u2019re not even playing.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s been going on since social media came into our lives. It\u2019s really disgusting. I\u2019m more worried for the younger generation. It came into my life in my early 20s; I can\u2019t imagine going through that when you\u2019re becoming a young adult. It\u2019s scary.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ajla Tomljanovic has revealed she receives \u201cdisgusting and scary\u201d online abuse every day, and that social media companies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246036,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[7814,132197,64,63,81,3587,146228,18937,10340,26600,514,435,146229,146230,6413,1314,85,747,1751],"class_list":["post-246035","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-abuse","tag-alja-tomljanovic","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-australian","tag-break-point","tag-british-star","tag-coco-gauff","tag-hong-kong","tag-katie-boulter","tag-mental-health","tag-netflix","tag-online-abuse","tag-prudential-hong-kong-tennis-open","tag-serena-williams","tag-social-media","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-us-open"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246035","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246035\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}