The US Open takes 19 HOURS to fix an embarrassing social media blunder – as tennis fans bicker over the blunder
- US Open commits embarrassing social media blunder on Twitter
- The tournament made a graphic stating that Berrettini and Sinner became the first Italians to reach the quarterfinals of the US Open together
- Twitter users were quick to criticize the tournament’s official account
- The US Open corrected the error 19 hours later
The US Open has been mocked after making an embarrassing social media blunder this week.
As Italian players Matteo Berrettini and Jannik Sinner battled their fourth-round opponent to the quarterfinals of the US Open, the tournament created a graphic for social media.
The Italian-themed poster featured photos of each player, accompanied by the words “Berrettini & Sinner – First Italian couple in history to reach US Open quarterfinals.”
Of course, it’s not the first time two Italians have reached this milestone at the US Open and Twitter users were quick to point it out
“Pennetta and Vinci?!” said one user – referring to the Flavia Pennetta Roberta Vinci from the finale in 2015.
Former Italy star Roberta Vinci has already played in a US Open quarterfinals, not that the organizers remembered
“hahaha you’d think people would learn to stop ignoring the achievements of female athletes by now,” commented another.
“When are you going to stop embarrassing yourself? They literally had an all-Italian final in 2015,” commented a third.
It took the US Open’s social media manager 19 hours to correct the error.
They tweeted a photo of Flavia Pennetta and Roberta Vinci from the 2015 final along with the comment, “Of course this stat is for the men’s singles*, we all remember that”.
The original graphic (left) posted by the US Open Twitter account incorrectly states that Berrettini and Sinner were the first Italian couple to reach the US Open quarter
Some tennis fans were still dissatisfied with the correction.
“Pretty poor US Open Twitter. And of course Flavia-Roberta was taller than the two men in the quarterfinals since that was the *final*,” one user replied.
“Then you should at least QRT [quote retweet] the original tweet correcting itself. Because you forgot to add the word “men,” which sounds like it hadn’t been done by women before,” said another.
Norway’s fifth-seeded Casper Ruud outclassed Matteo Berrettini 6-1 6-4 7-6 (7-4) to reach the US Open semifinals on Wednesday and Janik Sinner will play Carlos Alcaraz on Thursday.
