How every US tennis star has answered awkward | Sports News

Press conferences on the Australian Open have adopted a acquainted sample this week – at the least for the American gamers.

Every big-name star from the United States has fielded the identical query from the identical reporter, which has brought about fairly a stir on social media.

Players have been requested how they really feel taking part in beneath the American flag, given current occasions within the nation, some variations of the query naming President Donald Trump instantly.

Clips of quite a few exchanges have gone viral, with one participant producing a important response by shutting down the reporter, and others offering a more open response.

Here, we’ve compiled how many of these massive names have answered the query, from Coco Gauff to Taylor Fritz and plenty of more in between.

Question: “I’ve been asking a lot of the American players how it feels to play under the American flag right now. I’m curious how you feel…”

Anisimova stated: “I was born in America so I’m always proud to represent my country. A lot of us are doing really well. It’s great to see a lot of great athletes on the women’s and men’s side.”

She was a follow-up: “Just to clarify a little.. I mean… sort of in the context of the last year of everything that’s been happening in the US, does that complicate that feeling at all?”.

Anisimova replied: “I don’t think that’s relevant.”

Question: “This is a bit of a heavier question to start but you’re usually pretty outspoken about political issues and I’m just curious how you feel about the state of the US one year into the second Trump administration?”.

Gauff stated: “I hope forward that we can have a lot more peace in our country and more kindness in the way we speak to each other about different topics & things like that.

“Obviously I’ve been pretty vocal about how I felt. At this point, I feel a bit fatigued talking about it just because of the fact that it is hard being a black woman in this country and having to experience things, even online, and seeing marginalized communities being affected.. and knowing that I can only donate and speak out.

“I try my best to do that. But I hope that as time continues that we can reach a state that we’re not currently in, and we keep moving forward.”

Question: “I’m asking all the American players this and there’s a lot happening back home in the US, and kind of has been for a lot of the last year, and just wondering how you’re feeling about all of it?”.

Fritz stated: “I mean, not sure what we’re like specifically talking about, but there is a lot going on in the U.S., and I don’t know. I feel like whatever I say here is going to get put in a headline, and it’s going to get taken out of context. So, I’d really rather not do something that’s going to cause a big distraction for me in the middle of the tournament.”

Question: “A year into the 2nd Trump Administration, tensions in the U.S. are pretty ridiculously high. I’m just wondering how do you feel personally about what the Trump administration has been doing?”

Keys stated: “I think my stance has been pretty obvious. I think it’s pretty obvious where I stand. I am hopeful that we as a country can come together and get back to the values that I think make our country great. I am not a fan of divisiveness. I think the beauty of the U.S. is that we are a mixing pot. We are very diverse. We are a home of immigrants. And I hope that we can get back to those values.”

Question: “This is a pretty sensitive subject, but the US is a second year into the Trump administration now and a lot of people are suffering. I was wondering how you feel about things back home personally and specifically how the mood is in Florida?”.

Pegula stated: “Yeah, that’s a tough question. I feel, you know, I don’t know. I don’t like to kind of dabble too much into politics, just because it’s just not the space that I really want to say that much on. But yeah, I just hope that everybody can kind of, at some point, come together and work together as far as situations or whether it’s political or not political in our country.

“I really feel like, you recognize, we’ve got a massive nation the place there’s a lot of media consideration on us too, and that is powerful as a result of issues undoubtedly make their approach all over the world, and even me being in Australia, you hear about all these items happening back home.

“But I just hope you know that we can come together at some point with like a good dialogue where things can actually get accomplished and things that we want to see accomplished, and it not be so divisive, I guess.”

“Personally, Florida’s been, I think, okay. I think Florida there’s a big melting pot of different people from all over, in Florida. So, I feel like, especially me being in South Florida near Miami, I mean, there’s people of all over the country that come to move to Florida, and there’s a lot of international people that are there.

“So, I do not know if that is possibly why you type of get a lot of totally different cultural variations in a great way, truthfully. So, Florida to me, at the least the place I reside, has been high-quality.”