Martina Navvatilova called the guys the participants of the final wta tournament

The well -known in the past, the American tennis player of Czech origin, Martin Navvatilova, called the guys the participants of the final tournament of the Women's Tennis Association (WTA) in Singapore. This happened during the drawing ceremony, reports TASS.

The 18-time winner of the Grand Slam series tournaments, the former first racket of the world of Navvatilova turned to the participants of the competition, among whom were Russian tennis players Elena Vesnina, Ekaterina Makarova and Alla Kudryavtseva, with the words: "Hey Guys!" (Which the Russian agency translated as "Ay, guys!").

Note that the word "Guy" is really translated from English as "guy", but the greeting "Hey Guys!" It can be applied to persons of any gender (and in Russian in this case, judging by the Urban Dictionary dictionary, "hey guys"). It is noteworthy that the habit of calling girls “Guys” has previously caused displeasure among some conservatives widespread in the United States. The writer Allan Johnson spoke against such a name of the fair sex.

According to the results of the draw of Vesnin and Makarov, in the first round of the paired category, they will play with Kudryavtseva and representative of Australia Anastasia Rodionova. The pair discharges will be held from October 22 to 26.

Last week on Saturday, WTA considered the rude and inappropriate joke of the President of the Russian Tennis Federation (FTR) Shamil Tarpishchev in the Humorous program "Evening Urgant", who called the sisters Williams brothers.

The Russian functionary was suspended from WTA activities for a year and fined $ 25 thousand.