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Up and coming Canadian women's tennis pro, Rebecca Marino, recently announced that she is leaving tennis, in part due to cyberbullying.
A couple of weeks ago Rebecca announced that she was stepping away from tennis due to depression and bullying.
But this wonderful column, written by Chris Jones, was posted on ESPN today.
http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/9015790/promising-tennis-player-rebecca-marino-quits-sport-due-battle-depression-espn-magazine
Here is a column from NBCSports:
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2013/02/25/did-cyberbullying-cause-emerging-womens-tennis-star-rebecca-marino-to-quit-the-sport/#comments
A couple of weeks ago Rebecca announced that she was stepping away from tennis due to depression and bullying.
But this wonderful column, written by Chris Jones, was posted on ESPN today.
http://espn.go.com/tennis/story/_/id/9015790/promising-tennis-player-rebecca-marino-quits-sport-due-battle-depression-espn-magazine
"With professional athletes," Marino told The New York Times, "people put them on a pedestal sometimes, and they forget that they're actually a person still." For someone like her, social media -- where she was berated for her weight or by gamblers who lost when she lost -- isn't the wound. Depression is the wound. But social media is the infection that makes it worse, and there are only so many ways to resist it.
Here is a column from NBCSports:
Before the internet you had to have a thick skin to play professional sports, or to be in the public eye in general. But now the social media landscape can be absolutely toxic and for someone like Marino, downright debilitating. the saddest part of this that a lot of the abuse came from gamblers who, apparently, lost money on her matches. Thats just sick.
http://offthebench.nbcsports.com/2013/02/25/did-cyberbullying-cause-emerging-womens-tennis-star-rebecca-marino-to-quit-the-sport/#comments