Social media abuse in tennis: Female players face 12,000 derogatory posts by 2025

The WTA Players’ Board said in a statement: “Although it comes from a relatively small number of accounts, the impact can be significant. The WTA and World Tennis make it clear that they take this seriously, support the players and that this type of behavior is unacceptable.

“The progress made in this report demonstrates the value of working within the sport and with our partners to identify offending behaviour, support players and take meaningful action against those responsible.”

Threat Matrix uses AI backed by human analysts to evaluate content on X, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and Facebook.

The WTA and World Tennis said “collective action” was needed to make “significant progress” in tackling violence.

Britain’s Katie Bolter in 2025 He told BBC Sport. She received death threats.

Partners They called for proof of identity. Social media platforms to solve the problem.

The WTA and World Tennis added: “Insights gained from this report are critical to expanding our knowledge of the issue and helping us take decisive action to protect victims of online abuse by punishing those responsible.”

“While today’s findings demonstrate the effectiveness of that action to date, further significant progress will require concerted action from social media companies, law enforcement, regulators and the gambling industry, and we will continue to actively work towards that.”

In the men’s game, a new system driven by artificial intelligence, which In one year, 162,000 posts were bannedIt is used to fight heavy attacks.