“Should always have consequences”
German tennis ass talks about hate news
14.06.2025 – 2:36 p.m.Reading time: 2 min.
Eva Lys made a steep climb in the world rankings. The increasing awareness also brings inconvenience with it.
Eva Lys not only experiences increasing attention in the tennis court. Their appearance is also perceived more on social media – with unpleasant consequences. As the 23-year-old reported to the “Tagesspiegel”, the number of insulting comments has increased significantly since her matches had been transferred more often.
“I think it’s just important to continue talking about it – in the hope that it will be less at some point,” said Lys. Already in autumn 2023 she had made hate news public and described her as part of everyday life for a tennis player. At that time it was still outside the top 100. Today it is the German number one in 60th place in the world rankings.
“I think you can’t ignore something like that – there should always be consequences for that. Arguments like ‘but that’s the case and that has always been the case!’ Have never pulled with me if something is not going properly.
Despite the hostility, Lys still gives insights into her life on Instagram. She also shows her almost 200,000 followers there. “It is important to me to show different perspectives from sport. And to change the stigma of women in sport a bit,” said tennis player, born in Ukraine.
In terms of sport, your focus is now focusing on the lawn season. Next week she starts at the tournament in Berlin – an important building block in her preparation for Wimbledon. There she meets Paula Badosa from Spain at the start.
Lys suspect that it will take a trophy up to hold up a trophy. In addition, she was still missing game practice and experience on world -class level. “If I go on like this, I’m on a really good way,” said Lys. In Wimbledon it will be located directly in the main field for the first time.