NEW DELHI: A heartbreaking statistic has revealed the two tennis players who receive the most hate online are Aryna Sabalenka and Novak Djokovic.
The 25-year-old star won her first Grand Slam at the Australian Open earlier this year when she beat out the reigning Wimbledon champion, Elena Rybakina.
However, a new study conducted by the World Sports Network (WSN) has revealed that over the last 16 months, Sabalenka has received a ton of negative feedback across social media.
To achieve the worrying data, WSN “measured the social sentiments of tweets mentioning players in a negative light as well as the public’s reaction towards particular Facebook posts.”
Google Bard was deployed by the company to analyse any tweets that mentioned the top six seeds at this year’s French Open.
Social media interactions were monitored from January 2022 to May 2023, and studies conducted at the University of Belgrade were also utilised.
Arnya Sabalenka receives the most hate on social media Results found that 15 percent of the Belarusian's Twitter sentiments were negative and five percent of Facebook interactions relating to her were marked as ‘angry’.
Rybakina came in second place with 10 percent Twitter negativity and four percent adverse reactions via Facebook, while 29-year-old Caroline Garcia took third with 10 percent and one percent respectively.
In the men’s statistics, it has been revealed that 15 percent of tweets mentioning Djokovic over the last 16 months were negative, and 11 percent of his Facebook interactions were too. Stefanos Tsitsipas placed second with 15 percent and seven percent respectively, followed by Carlos Alcaraz in third place. Agencies
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