By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, December 10, 2025Photo credit: Cincinnati Open Fb
Aryna Sabalenka adamantly opposes transgender tennis gamers competing on the WTA Tour.
In a joint interview with Nick Kyrgios on Piers Morgan Uncensored, Sabalenka was requested her stance on transgender ladies enjoying ladies’s tennis.
World No. 1 Sabalenka mentioned she’s firmly in opposition to it as a result of it creates an unequal enjoying area.
“It’s simply not honest to a girl to mainly face a organic man,” Sabalenka instructed Piers Morgan.
“I’ve nothing to do in opposition to them [transgender athletes], however I really feel they nonetheless have an enormous benefit over the girl,” Sabalenka mentioned. “And I believe it’s simply not honest to a girl to mainly face a organic man.”
The 2-time reigning US Open champion mentioned her place comes all the way down to honest play.
“It’s not honest,” Sabalenka mentioned. “A lady is working their complete life to succeed in her restrict after which she has to face like a person, which is biologically a lot stronger.
“So for me I don’t agree with these items in sport.”
Sabalenka’s feedback echo remarks former world No. 1 Martina Navratilova has repeatedly made. Corridor of Famer Navratilova has mentioned it’s “insane” and “dishonest” to allow transgender ladies to compete in opposition to organic ladies.
Two-time Australian Open champion Sabalenka additionally struck again at criticism Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk made in an interview in October when she mentioned Sabalenka had a power and dimension benefit and steered the world No. 1 could effectively have a better testosterone stage as effectively, contributing to her success on court docket.
“After I take a look at these gamers, I’ve my very own expertise, however on the finish of the day, they’re all a lot larger than me, a lot taller than me, a lot stronger than me,” Kostyuk mentioned. “All of us have totally different organic constructions. Some have a better stage of testosterone, some have decrease.
“It’s simply pure, they don’t take something. I’m certain of that. It’s simply the biology of their physique.”
Requested by Piers Morgan her response to Kostyuk’s feedback, Sabalenka shot again “all I hear right here is simply excuses.”
“That’s so humorous that we have now even discuss somebody like Marta Kostyuk feedback,” Sabalenka mentioned. “However all I hear right here is simply excuses.
“It’s really fairly humorous as a result of she’s a powerful woman. She in all probability has extra muscular tissues than I do. She appears match and robust and I believe that’s not the case in the entire matches she misplaced in opposition to the highest gamers…I believe that’s not the important thing in sport.”
“All I hear right here is simply excuses… she in all probability has extra muscular tissues than I do!”
Aryna Sabalenka responds to Marta Kostyuk’s claims that she has ‘increased testosterone’.
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When Morgan noticed Sabalenka posted bikini pictures on Instagram within the aftermath of Kostyuk’s feedback, Sabalenka replied: “I simply needed to ensure that she sees the actual image.”
Sabalenka and Kyrgios squared off in blended doubles on the Backyard Cup on Monday evening with Kyrgios and Naomi Osaka edging Sabalenka and Tommy Paul in a Fast4 set.
The Battle of the Sexes conflict between two-time US Open champion Sabalenka and former Wimbledon finalist Kyrgios is about for December twenty eighth on the Coca Cola Area in Dubai.
