ATP executive chairman and president Chris Kermode has become the latest person to criticize comments from Indian Wells chief executive Raymond Moore on women's tennis.
Ahead of Sunday's BNP Paribas Open finals, Moore alleged that female players "ride on the coattails of the men" and should "thank God Roger Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born," claiming the duo have carried the sport. He has since apologized.
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"Ray Moore's comments towards women's tennis were disparaging and made in poor taste, as Ray has subsequently acknowledged," Kermode said in a statement released Monday.