Roger Rasheed has described the contest between Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka as \u2018insulting.\u2019 <\/p>\n
There has been lots of hype heading into the contest which will take place on the 28th of December in Dubai under modified rules. <\/p>\n
It\u2019s a contest that has been put into question as to how much benefit it will do for women\u2019s tennis with Sabalenka initially defending the concept, \u201cI am not putting myself at any risk,\u201d Sabalenka was quoted by the ABC website as telling BBC, who will broadcast the event. <\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019re there to have fun and bring great tennis. Whoever wins, wins. It\u2019s so obvious that the man is biologically stronger than the woman, but it\u2019s not about that. This event is only going to help \u200cbring women\u2019s tennis to a higher level.\u201d<\/p>\n
However former tennis coach Roger Rasheed has hit out at the event as he spoke to ABC Sports. <\/p>\n
The Australian doesn\u2019t understand what benefit it will do for Sabalenka or indeed women\u2019s tennis, \u201cI\u2019m not a fan of it, to be honest,\u201d Rasheed stated. <\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m pretty disappointed it\u2019s on. I think Nick\u2019s management has put this show on. The court\u2019s nine per cent smaller on one side because apparently data shows that the women\u2019s side of the game, their movement is by less than nine per cent.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Billy Jean King and Riggs event was about something else \u2026 I\u2019m not a fan of it, to be honest. I think it\u2019s a lose-lose for the women\u2019s side \u2026 I actually think it\u2019s quite insulting, to be perfectly honest. I don\u2019t see where there\u2019s one minute, one second of win for the number one player in the world. <\/p>\n
\u201cIf you are looking after Sabalenka commercially, is this a place where you want to be?\u201d<\/p>\n
Time will tell whether the event has any long-term benefits but for the time being the event has more critics than plaudits. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Roger Rasheed has described the contest between Nick Kyrgios and Aryna Sabalenka as \u2018insulting.\u2019 There has been lots…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-345893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345893","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=345893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}