Daria Kasatkina highlighted the social media abuse she has acquired after changing into the primary participant to succeed in the semifinals of WTA Elite Trophy on Thursday.
The sixth-seeded Kasatkina beat Eleventh-seeded Magda Linette 6-3, 6-4. She then posted on X, the social media platform previously often called Twitter, saying she received her match however the abuse she will get “is totally uncontrolled.”
She included a picture exhibiting a number of the abusive messages she had acquired.
Kasatkina beat top-seeded Barbora Krejcikova in her first round-robin match within the Azalea group of the second-tier postseason occasion. Krejcikova and Linette have been eradicated.
Third-seeded Jelena Ostapenko rallied to beat Donna Vekic 4-6, 6-4, 6-1 to win her opening match within the Orchid group, a consequence which eradicated the Tenth-seeded Croatian.
Ostapenko will subsequent play Chinese language participant Zheng Qinwen, who beat Vekic in her first match, to determine who advances as group winner.
Later Thursday, fourth-seeded Liudmila Samsonova was to play her first match of the event towards Chinese language wild-card Zhu Lin.
The 12-player event is the primary postseason occasion on the ladies’s tour. It options the 11 highest-ranked singles gamers who didn’t qualify for subsequent month’s WTA Finals in Cancun, Mexico. Zhu, ranked thirty seventh, is the ultimate entry as a wild-card.
The gamers are divided into 4 teams of three with the winner of every group advancing to Saturday’s semifinals. The ultimate is scheduled for Sunday.