RAFAEL NADAL'S COACH TONI CRITISICED FOR 'SEXIST' RESPONSE TO APPOINTMENT OF GALA LEON AS SPAIN'S DAVIS CUP CAPTAIN
Nadal's
coach and uncle says it would have been preferable to appoint someone with
experience of men's tennis as Spain's David Cup captain.
Rafael Nadal's coach has
criticised the appointment of a woman as the captain of Spain's Davis Cup team,
arguing there are substantial differences between the men's and women's games..
His comments have been labelled sexist by Spain's
leading political parties,
Gala Leon, a former WTA player, became the first woman
to be appointed captain of the country's Davis Cup team on Sunday, replacing
Carlos Moya. "It is preferable that (the captain) is someone with a
background in the world of men's tennis," Toni Nadal, Rafael Nadal's coach
and uncle, told Spanish radio.
"I have nothing against her, I
don't know what her capabilities are, and I hope she does her job well, but in
theory she is a person that doesn't know men's tennis, because men's tennis
isn't the same as women's tennis.
"The truth is that the men's
game isn't the same as the women's game on the tactical level, not that one is
better than the other."
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