Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula cry ‘foul’ over USTA’s depictions of American stars in Australian Open

American tennis stars Coco Gauff and Jessica Pegula took subject with paintings from the U.S. Tennis Affiliation (USTA) that depicted the seeded U.S. stars within the Australian Open.

The USTA depicted the highest seeds for the U.S. as “Wild Thornberrys” characters, and Gauff blasted the depictions in a submit on her Instagram Tales. The submit and the USTA’s paintings have been each later deleted.

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“Worst factor I’ve ever seen,” Gauff wrote. “Like a caricatures artist simply determined to make (us) all seem like hideous wanting individuals. The artwork fashion is cool for a cartoon present however not for a hype submit.

“Foul.”

Gauff added that she would’ve preferred to have been drawn as a “Bratz” character as an alternative, based on ESPN.

Pegula wrote on X, “We’re ugly af.”

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The Australian Open kicks off the Grand Slam season in tennis. The lads’s and girls’s tournaments start on Sunday and run by way of Jan. 28.

Taylor Fritz, Tommy Paul, Ben Shelton, Frances Tiafoe and Sebastian Korda are the Individuals seeded on the lads’s facet. Gauff, Pegula and Emma Navarro are the seeded Individuals on the ladies’s facet.

Gauff completed within the fourth spherical of the Australian Open final season. She misplaced to Latvian Jelena Ostapenko in straight units. Pegula has reached the quarterfinals in every of the final three tournaments.

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This yr, Gauff takes on Slovakian Anna Karolína Schmiedlová within the first spherical. Pegula faces Canadian Rebecca Marino.

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