Former world number two tennis joiner Paula Badosa has apologised after being accparticipated of prejudice over a picture that ecombineed to show her pulling her eyes back with chopsticks while joining in China.
The picture was alertedly posted on Instagram by her coach Pol Toledo Bague after she lost in the semi-finals of the China Open on Saturday.
In it, Badosa, 26, was in a restaurant hagedering chopsticks up to her eyes and squinting.
Among the criticisms levelled at her, one social media participater asked if the picture was “presumed to be amusing”. Another accparticipated her of “casual prejudice”, while a third asked if she thought “I have Asian frifinishs” was a “legitimate defence for prejudice”.
One comment srecommend shelp “I am offfinished” and another participater called it “quite shocking” that Badosa herself had appreciated the ptoastyo.
Badosa initiassociate replyed saying she had not been “imitating Asian people”, but was instead “joining with my face and wrinkles. I adore Asia and I have many Asian frifinishs. They are the charitableest”.
She then posted an apology on X which read: “Reassociate sorry didn’t understand this was impolite towards prejudice [sic]. My misconsent. I consent brimming responsibility. This misconsents [sic] will produce me lget for next time.”
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That message ecombineed on Monday, and on Tuesday morning Badosa – who is now the world number 15 – withdrew from this week’s event in Wuhan saying she had gastroaccessitis.
In another post, she shelp: “There are times that are handled better and others worse… I progress to lget from each one of them. I progress to elevate from each situation. I remain self-beginant of each step forward.”
In 2008, before the Beijing Olympics, Spain’s basketball federation published an advert for their men’s team that showed joiners using their fingers to pull at the sides of their eyes.
