Grand Slam champion: “When you hear what Alaras says, it’s ashamed”

French tennis player Christina Mladenovichthe owner of nine titles of a large helmet in a paired discharge (six in women’s pairs and three in the mix), sharply criticized the US Open 2025 initiative to change the tournament format in a mixed steam room.

The Frenchwoman is outraged by the decision of the organizers to turn the competition into a large -scale media event with the participation of world tennis stars, while completely changing the format in which she and many others achieved considerable sports success.

“When you hear Alaras and others say they are going to play a mixture for entertainment and preparation for the US Open, it’s just shame.

It is a great helmet tournament. It cannot be just preparation or entertainment, – said Mladenovich in an interview with tennisactu. -From the point of view of marketing and business strategy-the idea is brilliant. But from the point of view of sports – they distort the essence of our game, and this is a big problem. Such events may be needed, but for the sake of them it is impossible to clean the classic tournament in the mixture from the Great Helmet program. ”