Overview
- Udvardy received WhatsApp messages from an unknown number shortly after midnight before her Friday quarterfinal, demanding she intentionally lose or her family would be harmed.
- The sender referenced specific personal details such as family addresses, cars and phone numbers, and sent photos of relatives along with an image of a pistol.
- Udvardy alerted the WTA while her family contacted the Hungarian consulate, which arranged police protection at the match as Turkish officers also checked on her parents and grandmother.
- The match concluded without physical incidents, and Udvardy filed an official police report in Turkey after losing 6-7, 5-7 to Anhelina Kalinina.
- Udvardy was told similar threats have recently targeted other players and that personal data may have been taken from a WTA database, with investigations by the tour and Turkish authorities ongoing.