\u201cI have to say all of our dogs are very well-trained. They\u2019re not going to do anything wrong inside of this beautiful building. We have to change that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wimbledon chief executive Sally Bolton confirmed before the tournament that the only dogs permitted on site are service dogs and security dogs.<\/p>\n
Yet despite the potential threat to the grass courts, Sabalenka wants Ash and his fellow dogs to be allowed in.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just sometimes hurts to leave him at the house by himself. He really gets attached a lot. But he suffers staying alone. It really hurts my feelings,\u201d the four-time Grand Slam champion said after beating McCartney Kessler in the second round on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just like a little fluffy thing that always wants cuddles and love. Going to the park with him, walking around, is also like some sort of meditation for me.<\/p>\n
\u201cWimbledon, please, I beg you, let the dogs inside!\u201d<\/p>\n
At the risk of stirring up a locker room feud, American seventh seed Coco Gauff isn\u2019t so sure that having dogs around Wimbledon is a good idea.<\/p>\n
The two-time Grand Slam champion made it clear she is a big fan of dogs in general but aired her concerns about accidentally hurting a pet in a work environment.<\/p>\n
Gauff, 22, said: \u201cI love dogs. But I definitely think there\u2019s certain places dogs shouldn\u2019t be for safety reasons, like the gym and the locker room, where sometimes I see dogs.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gauff revealed there have been times she has come close to accidentally hurting a pet at other tournaments.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s a time and place. I wouldn\u2019t mind them around the site, but there\u2019s been times where I almost stepped on somebody\u2019s dog, almost threw a medicine ball at someone\u2019s dog,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou don\u2019t want to hurt an animal. I definitely think in the gym where there\u2019s already 50 million players doing a million different things.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t want to call out the player, but someone threw a medicine ball at me. If I was a little dog, that would freaking hurt.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the gym, no. In the locker room, no. Maybe in the food areas no, because of cleanliness. Everything else, go ahead, be free, run around with your dog.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI have to say all of our dogs are very well-trained. They\u2019re not going to do anything wrong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":505845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[74,10801,1060,6757,12974,18836,9219,9213,1634,2082,1345,2845,111,139,69,86269,52548,10702,3373,3367,46028,10802,213,165,90586,102,377],"class_list":["post-505844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-after","tag-aryna","tag-ban","tag-bringing","tag-change","tag-club","tag-dog","tag-dogs","tag-england","tag-for","tag-home","tag-leaving","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-organisers","tag-pet","tag-players","tag-pleaded","tag-pleads","tag-rule","tag-sabalenka","tag-sports","tag-their","tag-wimbledon","tag-with","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=505844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/505844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/505845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=505844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}