Sofya Zhuk met with hostility after nude post and for modeling

The woman can be seen: at the age of 20 Sofya Zhuk is young, attractive, extremely athletic and actually seemed on the way to a career in world tennis. Actually.

But the young Russian has decided on a different life plan than becoming a visual and successful figurehead of the WTA tour.

Since this spring, Zhuk has ended her tennis career for the time being, the Wimbledon junior winner from 2015 instead works as a model for an agency in her adopted home Miami.

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The Moscow native lets fans and the public alike on her social media channels with almost 70,000 Instagram-Followers take part, with whom she is always quite revealing.

Too much for some, however – especially after Zhuk recently revealed a more or less recognizable topless image of himself. The harsh criticism was not long in coming: “You should rather train than post naked pictures,” commented one user, while another etched: “You played bad tennis and now you pose badly too.”

Sofya Zhuk: Shit storm to topless picture

In the meantime, Zhuk has long since deleted the picture. The reactions hit them anyway.

“Normally I don’t care, but this time the comments were very aggressive. When I shared this photo, I received an avalanche of hatred,” said the right-handed woman, who is now only 436th in the world Russia Today.

Zhuk doesn’t like to blame himself: “I just post photos that I like. So what?”

And Zhuk added: “I just think that people cannot accept that I have found myself outside of tennis. That I can live happily without sport and not fall into depression.”

In fact, the blonde hardly seems to mourn the tennis business, even though it had begun very promisingly for her. As a 14-year-old, Zhuk won her first ITF tournament, followed by a triumph on the Wimbledon pitch a year later.

But then the development stagnated, mainly due to health problems. The back was a problem even when I was a junior, “my spine is like that of a 60-year-old,” said Zhuk in an interview with the WTA.

Zhuk: Is your modeling career coming to an end soon?

So for the Russian at a Grand Slam tournament it was always in round 1. When the pain also radiated to the hip, Zhuk pulled the rip cord and exchanged the racket for lipstick.

But even being a model could soon come to an end: “I love modeling. But realistically, careers on the catwalk are even shorter than those in tennis,” says Zhuk, who therefore made the jump into the real estate industry can imagine.