Doubles Superstar Takes a Sneaky Jibe at WTA as Cancun Disaster Puts Her Billie Jean King Cup Hopes in Jeopardy

The WTA Finals has gotten itself, into a series of controversies. One after the other, champions are revolting over the tournament’s conditions, which have gotten them in trouble. While players like Aryna Sabalenka and Ons Jabeur have raised queries to the WTA, one more tennis player, Ellen Perez, has added her side of the story to the ongoing controversy.

The players have discussed a range of concerns, such as the tournament’s scheduling and inadequate court conditions, but for Perez, the Billie Jean King Cup, her next competition, is in jeopardy as a result of the WTA Finals. The 28-year-old double specialist vented her rage and mocked the tournament for its poor arrangements.

Ellen Perez’s Billie Jean King Cup participation in question 

The Australian tennis player participated in the double category of the year-end championship. But even after making it to the finals, with her doubles partner Nicole Melichar-Martinez, the scheduling of the tournament has created a problem for her. Just after the tournament, the popular team event, the Billie Jean King Cup, is about to start, but the question is: will she be able to make it to the tournament?

Recently, she took to her Twitter account to share her problem with her fans, sharing how she is not happy with the tournament’s arrangement. She wrote, “Anyone got a private jet and want to fly me from Cancun to Seville tomorrow night to make it in time for BJKC Tuesday 10am match. Really not impressed with this scheduling disaster. Why do I have to be punished for this.”

Although the team event will start on November 7th, the rescheduling of the doubles final has put her participation on behalf of her country in jeopardy. The 28-year-old revealed shortly after her doubles match at the WTA Finals that she had to fly back to Spain quickly to play in the other tournament. Along with that, she also highlighted how she is not impressed with the way the tournament is scheduled.

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Nevertheless, she is not the first to raise questions regarding the schedule of the tournament and has some scheduling clashes with the team event. A lot of players, including Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula, have withdrawn from the BJK Cup to participate in the WTA Finals. In addition, just a few days ago, the 79-year-old tennis legend herself took the command to have a fair tennis schedule between both tournaments.

When Billie Jean King shared her concern over clashing tournament schedules 

King herself spoke about fair scheduling shortly before the WTA Finals, looking at the way players were skipping one tournament over another to participate in the other. According to the tennis.com press conference, she talked about resolving the scheduling issue and finding better ground for players.

She said, “We all need to get together and figure out a better calendar for the players and everybody knowing what’s going to happen, because you can’t start making these decisions, like on the WTA Finals, in October or … September.” She also emphasized how unfair it is to have conflicting tournament schedules because all of these details ought to have been known beforehand. However, despite these concerns, the organizers of the two tournaments stuck to their original schedules, which seems to be causing issues for the players who are participating in both of them.

Nevertheless, what are your thoughts on overlapping scheduling, which is creating a problem for Perez? Do let us know in the comment section below.

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