
Ask any ballkid: they’ll tell you Victoria Azarenka ranks near the bottom in terms of how she treats them – dabs notwithstanding.
Motherhood, it appears, will change all that.
It hit her when she attended the French Open and watched a player take out his frustrations on a youngster.
“I was like, ‘Oh, my God, I’ve probably done it myself toward these kids,’ and I felt so bad as a player, as a human being.
I told myself I will try to never make that mistake again,” she told the New York Times.
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