Two years after the facts, Lesia Tsurenko, former world number 23, brings up the Steve Simon affair, former WTA CEO, in which she accuses her of moral order against her during the Open BNP Paribas 2023. Meals she finally wishes to reveal to the light.
“Even in my worst nightmares, I could not imagine that the professional circuit, which I considered my house, would turn into a terrifying and foreign place, where the CEO of the organization would have knowingly committed an act of moral abuse against me, causing me a panic crisis and the inability to do my work. I tried to obtain protection and justice within the WTA. But in response, I was faced with indifference and injustice, which led me to prolonged moral decline. Pain, fear, panic attacks, humiliations, refusal to provide information, harassment of my team to silence me … and it is not even the full list of what I had to endure. The WTA circuit refused to protect a woman, a player, a human being. Instead, he chose to protect a person in the leadership position. My last chance to defend my rights, my dignity and prevent similar violence acts in sport is to ask for justice before the courts. And this is the path that I have been since the end of last year ”denounced the Ukrainian player, absent from the courts since last November, in a press release.
Posted on Thursday April 17, 2025 at 10:36 am
