Aliona Bolsova: “Skirt, dress … It seems that girls always have to be super sexy, even to play tennis”

She does not have long hair, does not play with a skirt, asks for more involvement from the best in the world in the fight for equality and admits what she suffered with her father: When my parents separated, my mother and I felt free, she declares THE WORLD.

Aliona Bolsova (Chisinu, Moldova, 1997) has on her left arm the tattoo of a lioness, the one that hunts to feed her family, has short hair and plays tennis with pants. In a sport in which the normal, the aesthetic and what most brands propose are young people with long hair and a skirt, the Spanish, born in Moldova but residing in Catalonia from the age of three, a student of Geography and Art History and WTA number 102 (the fifth Spanish), skips all the topics of dress and thought. They started to say behind my back that I was a lesbian because of my haircut. We live in a heterocentric society