Tennis stars unite towards gender violence: “If you mistreat a girl, you’re a loser”

The finest tennis gamers within the ATP and WTA rankings as soon as once more grow to be a speaker to denounce gender violence by means of the initiative that the Fundación Mutua Madrileña has launched inside the framework of the Mutua Madrid Tennis Open that’s held till 7 May in Madrid.

With the message ‘If you mistreat a girl, you’re a loser’, worldwide skilled tennis gamers corresponding to Iga Swiatek, Stefanos Tsitsipas, Casper Ruud or Paula Badosa have lent their picture in an audiovisual piece that wishes to encourage social rejection of the abuser.

The video shall be screened within the Caja Mágica throughout the Mutua Madrid Open and within the media. Thus, wanting on the digital camera, the tennis gamers say, in Spanish and English, phrases corresponding to “I’ve skilled 1000’s of hours”, “I’ve traveled everywhere in the world”, “I’ve received and misplaced sufficient”, to proceed saying: “I’ve received and misplaced sufficient”, “to know a loser once I see one”. And they conclude: “And you, in case you mistreat a girl, you’re a loser” or “You are a loser”.

Since 2014, the Mutua Foundation has launched initiatives of this sort within the tennis match atmosphere, interrupted solely in 2020 because of the suspension of the match because of the pandemic, with slogans corresponding to ‘I do not such as you’ or ‘ Against abuse, all collectively’.

The Mutua Madrileña Foundation, which this yr celebrates its first 20 years of life, started in 2012 a line of motion to finish gender violence. Since then, she has labored supporting initiatives of NGOs that work on this line and launches consciousness campaigns towards abuse or selling the social isolation of the abuser.

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