World No. 13 Elina Svitolina took to social media following her straight-sets loss to Naomi Osaka at the National Bank Open Tuesday to decry the abusive and hateful messages she received in the aftermath of the match, attributing the vitriol to bettors.
"To all the bettors: I'm a mom before I'm an athlete," Svitolina wrote in a post onto a story on her Instagram account. "The way you talk to women - to mothers - is SHAMEFUL. If your moms saw your messages, they'd be disgusted..."
