‘She Gave Birth to Children’ – Caroline Wozniacki’s Father Left Furious at French Open’s Diabolical Wild-Card Snub

The French Open has not even started and a major controversy has already erupted. Last week, the tournament announced the list of wildcards for the men’s and women’s singles main draw. However, apart from a couple of players who represented Australia and the United States, all the wildcards went to local players. This decision by the tournament organizers received major flak from across the tennis circle. Even the father of Caroline Wozniacki, Piotr Wozniacki, came down harshly on the tournament organizers for this decision.

Wozniacki was one of the players who was in the running to receive a wildcard entry into the main draw of the French Open. However, with the Danish star snubbed, she will have to potentially play the qualifying rounds to qualify for the main draw, which her father didn’t like.

During an interview, he called out the tournament organizers for their double standards after Wozniacki was ignored in the wild card list. He said, “I look at my daughter and see that the woman who was once called “Sunshine” has returned to tennis with a smile.” (Translated using Google Translate)

Further, he went on to add, “And after returning, she was faced with a gray reality that was unbearable. Why did it collide? Well, because she is a woman! Yes, she is a woman, she gave birth to children, she started a family.”

Everyone from Emma Raducanu to Dominic Thiem has been snubbed, and fans are furious. However, the French Open isn’t the only tournament receiving flak for the wildcard decision. At the Italian Open too, the wildcards went to lowly-ranked Italian players, and Wozniacki’s father slammed the WTA on this matter.

Father of Caroline Wozniacki issues a strong statement against the WTA

At the recently concluded tournament in Rome, players such as Federica Di Sarra and Vittoria Paganetti, who do not rank even in the top 500 of the WTA rankings but are local Italian players, have been selected to play at Roland Garros. As a result, players such as Wozniacki failed to participate in the tournament, which didn’t go down well with Piotr Wozniacki.

Slamming the WTA, he said, “Since all this is not regulated, everyone pursues their own interests. And the WTA, which in theory is for tennis players and cares about their well-being, stands aside and closes its eyes. They pretend they don’t see anything, that it’s none of their business.”

It remains to be seen if Wozniacki can qualify for the main draw of the French Open through the qualifying rounds. In order to do so, she’ll have to be at the top of her game.