Sabalenka dictates the verdict after the controversy of the discriminatory treatment of Alcaraz

the belarusian Aryna Sabalanka He joked about the controversy unleashed on social networks for his birthday cake and, before collecting his trophy as tournament champion in Madrid, said he had won the title “thanks to how delicious the cake was”.

The laugher, the world number two, who turned 25 this Friday, was referring to the debate generated by the size of the cake he was given by the tournament, which was smaller than the Spaniard received. Carlos Alcarazwho turned 20 years old on the same day.

Alcaraz’s cake has two floors and Sabalenka’s, simpler, only one.

Fans compared both cakes and considered the low category of gift discrimination for the player. The controversy grew so intense in the following hours that the tournament director, Feliciano Lopezhad to intervene.

The former player was surprised and remembered that Alcaraz was playing on the center court, where he had just qualified for the final, and that the honoree was a Spaniard playing a tournament in Spain.

He also uploaded a photo of Danish’s birthday Holger Rune, also during the tournament, with a cake similar to Sabalenka’s.

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The Belarusian did not play on his anniversary, so he received the cake in the locker room, not on the track.

Sabalenka took the controversy as a joke and said after winning the final: “I think it’s all because of yesterday’s cake, it was very good…”.