Feliciano appeases the controversy over the difference in size between Alcaraz’s birthday cake and Sabalenka’s

Unot one of the best matches, surely the best of the current female circuit of tennis will be able to see this Saturday (6:30 p.m.) in the final of the Mutua Madrid Open 2023: the number one in the world, the Polish Every Swiatekagainst number two, the Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

However, before playing that decisive match Sabalenka has shown her sadness for a detail that has occurred in the tournament. The tennis player turned 25 this Friday the same day as Carlos Alcaraz celebrated his 20th birthday.

The tournament congratulated each with a cake and in the difference between one cake and another the ‘problem’ arose. The one from the Belarusian, who did not play that day, it was smaller and not as spectacular as the one in Alcarazwho received him on the court at the end of his match.

Comments skyrocketed on social media by the disparity and the own Sabalenka responded with some sad faces to a tweet with the images of the two cakes, a comment that he later deleted.

Feliciano’s answer

A controversy that provoked the response also in the social networks of Feliciano López, tournament directorsurprised by the commotion that had formed. “I am surprised by this reaction after this gesture! 1. Carlos had just won his match and reached the final. 2. He was playing Center Court. 3. The tournament is played in Spain, even if it is an international event. P.S: I hope Rune hasn’t been upset by his treatment as well.“. And he accompanied the text with an image of the Danish tennis player with a birthday cake the same size as Sabalenka’s.

Other tennis players sided with Sabalenka. “That doesn’t look good”he wrote, for example, in a tweet Bianca Andreescu.