Thursday, January 22, 2015

Eugenie Bouchard bounced into ‘Twirlgate’ by Australian reporter

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Ian Cohen has become just the latest in a long line of men to demean female tennis players

Eugenie Bouchard had no idea the man with the microphone in his hand and mischief in his heart would ask her to “do a little twirl” to show off her outfit for the TV cameras and the crowd at the Australian Open in Melbourne this week. What followed was an exercise in farce control, as journalists hungry for a story seized on social media criticism to portray the incident as “Twirlgate”.


The villain of the pantomime was Ian Cohen, a reporter from the shouty school who does the sort of low-level courtside interviews with players immediately after a match that would not be out of place in a holiday camp.


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