Her job is playing tennis. Do the matches at tennis tournaments get decided by who gives the best press conferences? Please demonstrate that to me. The WTA only thrives because they have elite tennis players, not because they supplicate to the media.
My goodness. You clearly have feelings for this girl. For what it’s worth, I think she did the right thing. She did not wish to participate in the post game presser, part of a contractual agreement, so she took the association fine and withdrew. All is well. She did the right thing!!!
I’m not against her!!
The Grand Slam commission required the presser NOT the press. They have no power to do so. And I think you know that.
Now sit down and write Oksana a love letter.❤️
NO. Her job is BUILD THE BRAND. Actually multiple brands if she’s got any sponsorships. That means wearing the logos, doing the pressers, having the interviews.
Way back when when Dale Earnheart Jr was first starting his career there was a wonderful incident. He’d left his trailer to go do something and ran into some press. So he was chatting on camera, but he hadn’t been expecting press, so he wasn’t wearing any of his logos. His dad wanders out, sees him, turns around, goes into Jr’s trailer, comes back out with a hat and a jacket, walks up to the cluster and says “boy, I know full you well you were taught better than to give press without your logos, now put em on”.
Dale understood how the system works. I understand how the system works. And so do you. The WTA only thrives because these elite tennis players BUILD THE BRAND. Without the press conferences, without the logo time on TV, they got nothing. Nobody want to watch they feel no connection to play game. They want to root for somebody, they want to root against somebody, and to do that, they need to see some interviews, see people.