The British No 1 tennis player Heather Watson has hit back at the “cowards” who have sent her death threats on social media.
Following an emphatic straight sets victory over the former world No 5 Daniela Hantuchova, Watson said trolling messages had become such a usual occurrence that she had stopped checking her social media accounts, but that the abuse usually came from gamblers, “because you either win or lose them money”.
The 23-year-old made the comments in her post-match press conference, expanding on comments she made to the New York Times earlier this week, in which she said: “I’ve had death threats.