Katie Boulter opens up over ‘awful’ online abuse sent to tennis players

British player talks about receiving toxic messages‘I don’t think there’s anything off the cards now’The British tennis No 2 Katie Boulter has lifted the lid on the level of abuse aimed at some players and revealed she and her family have received death threats.Boulter shared her experiences with BBC Sport to highlight the issue of players receiving toxic messages online. The 28-year-old’s examples included a message telling her to buy “candles and a coffin for your entire family” with a reference to her “grandmother’s grave if she’s not dead by tomorrow”, one stating she should “go to hell” as she had cost the poster money, and another stating “hope you get cancer”. Continue reading...

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