[Green Unicorn]

100% on the spectrum/emotional regulation issues/oversharing as a symptom. Honestly I know the feeling and it is rough to navigate when you’re younger and care more about everybody liking and understanding you. So she gets criticized for being robotic and unemotional, and when she’s emotional, she gets criticized for that too. Social media does nobody any favors. She should just quit it.

This is such a poor take.

 

[Mr.Sparkle]

Eh, this statement feels more like justification rather than introspection.

Where's Emma's PR team when you need it ? Just kidding.

I say let's see what's next.

I kinda like it, but feels a bit... would you ever see Sharapova say something like this? Serena? Probably not. Implies she maybe lacks the separation you need between the internal and the external.

It makes me wonder, what her and her psychologist talk about and are working on. From reading this, I thought she could do with some emotional/psychological support, but she's supposed to be already getting that. Not saying her mental health will be perfect and not subject to emotional outbursts, but it's just like the fact that things are continuing to impact her much later than when they happened, you would think she would have worked on it earlier with her psychologist.

 

[borzniacka]

she’s thoroughly insufferable.

 

[KurtSteiner17]

Lol I can’t believe how overblown this whole thing is. What behavior? People obviously haven’t watched tennis back in its glory days. Smashing the ball to a ground? She needs to stop explaining every single detail media will write about, let’s be clear here Iga is not the material you make a villain from.

This. It cracks me up. Was what she did stupid? Of course. But she bounced a ball in frustration, 30 feet over the kid. By the reactions, you'd think she scorched a line drive into the stands like Tsitsipas did at Wimbledon. I don't think Zverev received this much attention when he destroyed his racquet on the umpire's stand.

 

[moby]

And if she released a phony PR statement, she'd get the exact same reactions from exactly the same people here. It literally doesn't matter what she does or says.

She could have kept the gist but be much more concise (ChatGPT can help with this). Something like:

"I want to apologize for my behavior in the Indian Wells semifinal. I was frustrated and took it out on the ball, not seeing where I was hitting it. It is true that the stress of the tour has been getting to me: the doping case last year, where I felt my career was in the balance; also, losing and trying to regain the #1 ranking, which is always a priority for me. However, that is no excuse for acting unprofessionally. I am sincerely sorry for causing shock to the ballkid and everyone watching. Going forward, I plan to do better."

Instead, she vomited out paragraphs where the focus was not so much reflection/contrition, but "to be seen" and "have her perspective and feelings be validated". The whole entire world is not the right audience for that.

 

[Mare Serenitatis]

Lol I can’t believe how overblown this whole thing is. What behavior? People obviously haven’t watched tennis back in its glory days. Smashing the ball to a ground? She needs to stop explaining every single detail media will write about, let’s be clear here Iga is not the material you make a villain from.

I'm not even an Iga fan, but yeah.

Everyone's so sensitive and whiny nowadays (not just tennis). I wish she had just ignored it and said nothing. She's basically trying to appease the critics who will always find something negative to say regardless of what she does or doesn't do.

You can never truly please the angry mob, so just let them be angry.

 

[HatersGoToHell]

Iga, big hug to you. Stay strong.

 

[Giorgiboy]

I think that might be called "damage control" if my opinion.....She should have just remained silent, I doubt her sponsors are set to drop her.

 

[égalité]

This is such a poor take.

Why? She is my favorite player and I actually like what she said in this statement. I just don’t think it’s going to be taken well by people who are being (hyper)critical of her.

 

[goat]

So I read the statement as she is upset she got caught doping

 

[WanderingBear]

I’ve never read something so whiny and sanctimonious.

 

[EkVraNaamEnVan]

I may have put my Adblocker on steroids as I can see some photos but not others. Anyway, see you in Miami now that you have dealt with some issues.

 

[KurtSteiner17]

She could have kept the gist but be much more concise (ChatGPT can help with this). Something like:

"I want to apologize for my behavior in the Indian Wells semifinal. I was frustrated and took it out on the ball, not seeing where I was hitting it. It is true that the stress of the tour has been getting to me: the doping case last year, where I felt my career was in the balance; also, losing and trying to regain the #1 ranking, which is always a priority for me. However, that is no excuse for acting unprofessionally. I am sincerely sorry for causing shock to the ballkid and everyone watching. Going forward, I plan to do better."

Instead, she vomited out paragraphs where the focus was not so much reflection/contrition, but "to be seen" and "have her perspective and feelings be validated". The whole entire world is not the right audience for that.

Oh, I totally agree there. She's a super sensitive young lady, that's for sure. Just like her nervous post-match on-court interviews. She talks way too much. Which is funny, for an introvert. I think it's the same here. She wants to over-explain everything. Less is more, Iga.

 

[steos]

Was there any need to say anything at all? Everybody has already moved on, so should she.

 

[Deuce*]

No, you can read the entire statement by flipping through the images, without being logged into Instagram.

^ Thanks. I was looking only at the writing on the right side.

 

[BagelBaker]

After reading that, you can tell it really came from her because no PR would ever advise her to release this!

I do think she gets an unfair amount of scrutiny with certain things like bathroom breaks, when she's not the only person. I think the expectations on her are great because of her ranking and the people who projected a personality onto her that she never claimed to have. It's like with Paolini now giving icy handshakes, I don't think she ever said she was the sweetest person but because she was happy on court last year, she got that label.

What she did with the ball kid was wrong and a simple apology would have sufficed but instead we got a therapy session. She's really going through it

 

[Miracle Worker]

Why and who let her to post this?

Another proof Daria should be kicked out from her team.

Those girls would not survive in era of Serena, Venus, Martina and Justine's dramas.

 

[Deuce*]

I don't like these kinds of 'explanations'. By doing this, she clearly feels that she 'owes' people an explanation... In the latter portion, she says she must be true to herself, and she knows that she can't please everyone. But the mere act of writing this 'explanation' and releasing it publicly obviously reveals that she IS trying to please everyone; or, at least, that she wants everyone to 'understand' her. That's not a good thing.

In life, there will be people you get along with, and people you don't get along with... there will be people who treat you fairly and people who do not treat you fairly... there will be people who understand you and people who do not understand you... The key is to ignore and dismiss those you don't get along with, those who don't treat you fairly, and those who don't understand you. Trying to make these people get along with you, make them treat you fairly, and make them understand you is a waste of precious time and effort and reveals only your insecurity - which then will make some of these people target you even more.

 

[Barty Party]

All she had to say is that she was sorry and she doesn’t look back on her behavior fondly, apologize to the ball kid and then say that it won’t happen again. Idk who helped her write this but it’s too many word.

 

[Coffee_and_aces]

So I read the statement as she is upset she got caught doping

Yeah, reading comprehension is a rare skill nowadays