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The legend of Tennis Chris Evert has to use WNBA players for lack of sporting spirit after Tuesday evening’s skirmish who saw the star of the Indiana Fever Caitlin Clark being walked in the eyes and pushed to the ground in a match against the Connecticut Sun.
Clark and Sun players, Marina Mabrey and Tina Charles, were struck by technical faults. Jacy Sheldon received a blatant fault. Later, the Sophie Cunningham fever was kept to fight back with a hard fault on Sheldon. The two players were ejected from the game with 40 seconds to play.
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November 2, 2023; Cancun, Mexico; Chris Evert at a joint press conference with Martina Navratilova on the five day of the Saguaros WTA Cancun GNP final. (Susan Mullane-USA TODAY SPORTS)
Evert was one of those who commented Clark’s incident.
“When these ladies do they realize, will accept and appreciate @ Caitllclark22 is the best thing that has ever happened to women’s basketball. It is a bad look for sport and what has happened to the sporting spirit?” Evert wrote on X.
She responded to a publication on social networks published by the columnist Christine Brennan, who is expected to release a book on Clark next month.
The Sophie Cunningham fever receives praise for the back of Caitlin Clark in Wild Game vs Sun
Connecticut attacker Sun Olivia Nelson-Ododa (10) fallen to the Indiana Caitlin Clark (22) fever goalkeeper in the first half of a WNBA basketball match in Indianapolis on Tuesday, June 17, 2025. (APPO / Michael Conroy)
“The WNBA continues not to meet the moment. Terrible decision to allow Marina Mabrey to stay in the game. People are looking like never before. And that’s what they see?” Brennan wrote on X.
It is far from the first time that Clark was pushed, pushed and pushed to the ground. She was also struck in her eyes during a match against the sun last year – and it’s just the tip of the iceberg.
The crew chief Ashley Gross spoke to a swimming pool journalist after the match and was asked about Clark’s technical fault.
“After Sheldon’s fault, Clark reacted in an antactive manner,” said GOSS.
Fever coach Stephanie White told journalists after the match she had received no explanation for technical fault on Clark.
June 17, 2025; Indianapolis, Indiana, United States; The Connecticut Solar Guard, Jacy Sheldon (4), False at the Indiana Fever Guard Caitlin Clark (22) in the second period in Gainbridge Fieldhouse. (Images of Trevor Ruszkowski-Imagn)
She implored WNBA officials to be better in their efforts to control the heating matches.
