The Wimbledon champion hit right back over the commentator’s “disappointing” joke.
The analyst had been caught on mic making an inappropriate remark while preparing to discuss the 28-year-old champion’s match against Zheng Qinwen in the WTA finals last week in Saudi Arabia.
“I joined the show by Zoom. In rehearsal we were shown a graphic of a player who had just competed. It showed her at an angle that exaggerated her forehead. A few minutes later, I was told to frame up my Zoom. I looked at the low camera angle and joked that it made my forehead resemble the player in question.“Someone in the control room chimed in and I bantered back. Though this was a private rehearsal, this exchange inadvertently, and without context, made it to live air.
The Tennis Channel responded by taking Wertheim off the air for the “inappropriate comment,” saying it “holds its employees to a standard of respectfulness for others at all times, a standard that was not met in this moment.”“If we are going to be transparent and hold people accountable and call people out for acting like jacka--es when one of us acts like a jacka-- and in this case that would be me, we need to make ourselves present and accountable,” he told Roddick.
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