March 7 (Reuters) – Hungarian tennis player Panna Udvardy said she received messages threatening harm to her family unless she deliberately lost a match while she was playing a tournament in Turkey.
The world number 95 said in a social media post on Friday that she received the threats while she was playing in the Antalya Challenger event and that she had alerted the WTA.
Her parents contacted the Turkish consulate and three police officers accompanied her to her match in Antalya, she added.
“I was told that similar threats have recently happened to other players and that they believe personal information may have leaked from the WTA database, which is currently being investigated,” the 27-year-old wrote.
“Police also went to my parents and grandmother’s homes, and after the match I filed an official police report here in Turkey.”
The WTA did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
(Reporting by Karan Prashant Saxena in New Delhi; Editing by Peter Rutherford)
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