'Salty' tennis star slams WAGs' popularity and claims 'actual athletes' are being shunned in wild social media rant

Former top-20 tennis prima Daria Saville has blasted influencer WAGS' bigger marque popularity implicit 'actual athletes' and has sounded the alarm that the existent professionals don't get the aforesaid opportunities.

Saville, who is presently ranked No 108 successful the world, self-described her cognition successful missing retired connected marque deals compared to influencers arsenic 'salty' during a caller TikTok video. 

The 31-year-old Australian did not sanction immoderate influencers specifically. However, the accusation of tennis WAGs provokes the sanction Morgan Riddle astatine the moment, the woman of American antheral prima Taylor Fritz.  

Fritz, the No 4 antheral successful the satellite and highest-ranking American, has dated Riddle since 2020. Riddle herself has embraced the WAG lifestyle and has much than 430k followers connected Instagram. 

'Let’s speech marque deals for a second. Tennis aesthetics are successful close now, right? Brands are choosing WAGs implicit existent athletes… why?' Saville said. 'It’s each implicit the place, but pistillate tennis players are not getting those marque deals. It’s really tennis WAGs that acceptable into the aesthetics alternatively than america sweaty tennis players.'

Saville besides did not effort to diminish what the WAGs bring to the game, saying determination is 'surely abstraction for some WAGs and pistillate tennis players' erstwhile it comes to marque deals, but she feels similar the pistillate players 'always get near out.' 

Saville is acold down successful the rankings compared to a Coco Gauff oregon Aryna Sabalenka, perchance making those opportunities consciousness much retired of scope than for the spouse of the No 4 antheral successful the world. 

'I’ve spoken to a fewer influencer WAGs, and they’re amazed that we don’t get the aforesaid opportunities. Is it that athletes are not arsenic relatable arsenic WAGs to the audience?' Saville continued. 

'… I’ve got a property and it’s salty close now… Do selling teams deliberation tennis players are excessively niche compared to a WAG? Is that the full glamorous beingness compared to sweat life? Is it much inspiration to beryllium a WAG than a pistillate athlete?'

'Honestly, it’s caput blogging to maine that brands are pickling influences for their campaigns during expansive slams. And I’m decidedly not the lone pistillate tennis subordinate that feels that way. Marketing girls, wherefore is that? Sorry if I cam crossed salty AF. I’m done here.'

Some successful Saville's comments took them arsenic a nonstop reflection connected Riddle, with the 16-year pro coming to the WAGs defense. 

'Okay but Morgan Riddle is overmuch much amusive than Taylor Fritz,' 1 social-media idiosyncratic said. 

'She is! It’s true!,' Saville retorted. 'But some tin coexist haha!! I emotion her vlogs!'