THE WTA has offered additional support to Jodie Burrage after she received death threats and online abuse following a first-round defeat at a tournament in India on Tuesday.Burrage shared a raft of abusive messages sent to her Instagram account after a gruelling 3-6 6-3 7-5 defeat by India’s Vaishnavi Adkar at the Chennai Open.The 27-year-old, who was playing her first WTA Tour match since last summer, accompanied the messages with the caption: “Nice welcome back to the tour. I remember why I left.”

THE WTA has offered additional support to Jodie Burrage after she received death threats and online abuse following a first-round defeat at a tournament in India on Tuesday.

Burrage shared a raft of abusive messages sent to her Instagram account after a gruelling 3-6 6-3 7-5 defeat by India’s Vaishnavi Adkar at the Chennai Open.

The 27-year-old, who was playing her first WTA Tour match since last summer, accompanied the messages with the caption: “Nice welcome back to the tour. I remember why I left.”

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