LONDON (AP) — British tennis player Jodie Burrage has received death threats and a torrent of abuse on social media after she was defeated in her first main-draw singles match on the WTA Tour in 16 months. Burrage shared a recording of a lengthy reel of abusive messages she received on Instagram following a 3-6, 6-3, 7-5 loss to Vaishnavi Adkar in the round of 32 at the Chennai Open on Tuesday. Alongside the video, Burrage wrote: “Nice welcome back to the tour. I remember why I left.” Many of the abusive messages appeared to be from gamblers unhappy that the 27-year-old Burrage had lost. World Tennis, the sport’s governing body, said in December 2024 that “angry gamblers” were responsible for 48% of the more than 12,000 posts on social media platforms from January to October that year which were deemed abusive by a monitoring service. In July this year, the WTA said in a report into online abuse of players that 89% of accounts responsible for serious abuse in 2024 did not reappear in 2025, and that it secured the removal of 66% of serious abusive posts or comments, while escalating 35 accounts to law enforcement…Read more