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Jodie Burrage offered support by WTA after death threats and online abuse

Jodie Burrage offered support by WTA after death threats and online abuse
Jodie Burrage has previously spoken out about spoken out about the failure of the governing bodies and social media companies to tackle abuse. Photograph: Vincent Thian/AP

The WTA has offered additional support to Jodie Burrage after she received death threats and online abuse following a first-round defeat at a tournament in India on Tuesday.

Burrage shared a raft of abusive messages sent to her Instagram account after a gruelling 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 defeat by India’s Vaishnavi Adkar at the Chennai Open. The 27-year-old, who was playing her first WTA Tour match since last summer, accompanied the messages with the caption: “Nice welcome back to the tour. I remember why I left.”

It is three years since the WTA – in partnership with Wimbledon, World Tennis and the United States Tennis Association – launched the AI-led Threat Matrix service, which aims to identify and tackle online abuse against players and officials.

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