Aryna Sabalenka, the world number one, considered it “unfair” that the Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) allows transgender women to participate in its tournaments, even though they are currently virtually absent from the elite of world tennis.
Invited Tuesday night to British presenter Piers Morgan’s show, the Belarusian was asked if she shared the opinion of former world number one Martina Navratilova, who opposes the participation of transgender women in WTA tournaments.
“It’s a delicate issue. I have nothing against them, but I still feel they have a huge advantage over women who haven’t undergone gender transition,” she explained.
“It simply seems unfair to me for a woman to face players who are biologically male,” she added. “A woman works her whole life to overcome her limits and suddenly she has to face a man, someone biologically much stronger. I don’t agree with this kind of thing in sports,” the world number one concluded.
