Threat matrix

International Tennis Federation: Women’s Tennis Association (WTA) and International Tennis Federation (ITF) on Tuesday published the first-ever season-wide report outlining the scale of abuse directed at players on social media, citing 8,000 posts/comments sent from 4,200 accounts as abusive, violent or threatening.

British no. 2 Katie Boulter has also opened up about the death threats and abuse she has received on social media. "It becomes more apparent every single time you go on your phone. I think it increases in number and it also increases in the level of things that people say. I don't think there's anything off the cards now," she told BBC Sport.

The report findings are taken from Signify Group’s Threat Matrix service, which went live in January 2024, protecting players and tennis family members from targeted online hate, as well as threatening and violent direct communication.