French Open star demands change after worrying | Sports News

Katie Boulter has known as for the removing of on-court promoting boards on the French Open after gamers repeatedly stumbled over them during matches at Roland Garros.

The former British girls’s No. 1 tumbled over one during her second-round conflict in opposition to Anastasia Potapova on Court 13, dropping her racket after returning a shot.

Boulter, 29, claimed the opening set 7-5, however the 28 seed fought back, securing the second 6-4 and third 6-2 to advance to a third-round assembly with Coco Gauff. The day after turning into the ultimate British participant eradicated from this 12 months’s second Grand Slam, Boulter addressed the difficulty on social media, urging the French Tennis Federation, organizers of the French Open, to remove the hazards. It comes as a tennis star breaks the silence on Serena Williams’ partnership comeback.

She wrote on X: “THESE THINGS HAVE TO GO. Got lucky last night but next time I might not be…”

Her assertion responded to a person posting photographs of her fall, accompanied by the message: “Roland Garros really deserves to be sued, she was lucky it wasn’t something serious but for real… what’s the point of those things on court? Write the name Lacoste on that banner behind, and that’s it, they risk players’ health for sponsors.”

Responding to video footage of the Turkish participant’s stumble, she exclaimed: “Omg! Not again!” Sonmez was finally pressured to retire after struggling an sudden damage when she misplaced her footing whereas making an attempt to retrieve a ball close to the back of the court docket. She slipped on one of the mini boards, that are triangular prisms resembling a Toblerone box.

Boulter and Sonmez will not be the one gamers to have stumbled over objects across the court docket at Roland Garros this 12 months. Alexander Blockx was pressured to withdraw earlier than the primary draw even commenced, after claiming to have sprained his ankle on the rolled-up tarpaulin covers surrounding the observe court docket on the Paris Jean-Bouin membership.

He wrote in an Instagram post: “Unfortunately, during today’s practice, I heard a snap in my ankle while I sprained it thanks to the ‘really necessary’ covers at the back of the court @rolandgarros, which is why I had to withdraw from tomorrow’s match that I was really looking forward to. A lot of frustration but we move on.”

Blockx subsequently eliminated the phrase ” thanks to the ‘really necessary’ covers at the back of the court @rolandgarros” from his message. World No. 37’s coach Ruben Bemelmans has since revealed to The Athletic that his crew might pursue compensation.

He said: “There should be a solution for that because the courts are very narrow, there’s not much space behind the courts, so in my opinion, it shouldn’t be there, or there should be another solution other than putting them on the ground, because the speed of the game is getting so quick, and I mean the courts there are very, very narrow, there can be other solutions than putting them on the ground.”