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Has a Pandora’s box opened in the world of tennis? Andrea Jaeger, the former American star, today (Saturday) surprisingly revealed that already at the beginning of her career she was sexually harassed dozens of times by the women of the women’s tennis team without the intervention of the WTA leaders, who knew about what was happening but did not do even half of it. .
The tennis player, who has qualified for the Grand Slam final twice, revealed in an interview with The Independent that she was sexually harassed at least 30 times in her locker room during her career (not really long it should be noted) by a tennis union staff officer in charge of the organization’s active athletes. Now, many years later, at the age of 57, she has decided to share in order to prevent such cases now and in the future.
Jaeger She bravely shared what happened: “When I reported this I was threatened and told to leave the subject. I have been sexually harassed 30 times in the locker room over the years. ” The former tennis player, who was considered the epitome of the tennis world and began her career in the round at the age of 16, won 10 career titles before retiring at the age of 19 due to a shoulder injury that caused her to undergo seven surgeries. She lost to Martina Navratilova in the 1982 Roland Garros final and also in the 1983 Wimbledon final.
