Top players get better treatment at Wimbledon: Cornet | The Express Tribune
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LONDON: Lower-ranked players are not treated as equals to the big names at Wimbledon, France's former world number 11 Alize Cornet said on Thursday after losing in the second round. Cornet's 16th Wimbledon was ended by defending champion Elena Rybakina as she suffered a 6-2 7-6(2) defeat. The 33-year-old, now ranked 74th and playing in a women's professional era record 66th successive Grand Slam, said she noticed the difference at the All England Club this year. "It's a different treatment on every Slam," she said. "When I'm at home, in Roland Garros, I have priorities over the courts, I know everybody, I can ask when I want to play. "I think the organisation does everything for the French player to be successful there. Then in Wimbledon , you have a huge difference between the seeded players and the other players. This is not new. The difference of treatment and tickets." Asked to elaborate, Cornet said she had only bee