“It’s Easy to Give Moral Lesson to Others” – Gilles Simon Taunts Wimbledon

Due to the coronavirus pandemic, the tennis season has been suspended, thereby affecting many tournaments. While many of these event organizers decided to stay positive and try to reschedule, Wimbledon followed a different path. They decided to cancel the tournament altogether. Check out what French tennis player Gilles Simon thinks about it.

Gilles Simon On The Cancelation Of Wimbledon

The French Newspaper, 20 Minutes, recently interviewed Gilles Simon. In the interview, they asked him about a lot of things, one of which was about the cancelation of Wimbledon. Gilles replied by saying,

“When you have taken out pandemic insurance with the greatest chance that will bring in 140 million, whatever happens, it’s easy to have a good role and to give moral lessons to others.”

As you can see, the Frenchman has made some pretty bold statements here mocking the organizers of the Wimbledon. This is probably because he believes that they should not have immediately canceled the tournament. It is, after all, one of the biggest events on the tennis calendar.

Gilles will definitely have a lot of fans agreeing with him, but is he right? The answer to this is complicated as you can argue both sides. Since many tournaments have tried to postpone and not cancel, he is right in believing that Wimbledon should have done the same. But, you also have to look at it from the organizers’ point of view.

The coronavirus is spreading extremely fast and it looks like there won’t be any tennis in 2020. If the organizers prepared for Wimbledon to be played but were eventually forced to cancel, they would lose a lot of money. And this is not something they want as the economic situation is already bad because of the virus.

Whichever side you take, it won’t matter as we are not going to see the 3rd Grand Slam of 2020. The only thing we can do now is hope that the virus does not spread further and that we can see the remaining tournaments of 2020.