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CEO Raymond Moore address the audience at the trophy ceremony of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif., March 20, 2016.Matthew Stockman—Getty Images by [Erin Flynn / Sports Illustrated](https://time.com/author/sports-illustrated/) ## Erin Flynn / Sports Illustrated Mar 21, 2016 2:34 AM UTC Indian Wells Tennis Garden CEO Raymond Moore told reporters on Sunday that he thinks male players have carried the sport of tennis. Indian Wells is currently hosting the BNP Paribas Open, where Victoria Azarenka beat Serena Williams on Sunday and Novak Djokovic is set to play Milos Raonic on Sunday night. When asked for his thoughts on the Women’s Tennis Association before the Djokovic–Raonic match, Moore responded with some controversial comments. “No, I think the WTA—you know, in my next life when I come back I want to be someone in the WTA, (laughter) because they ride on coattails of the men. They don’t make any decisions and they are lucky. They are very, very lucky. “If I was a lady player, I’d go down every night on my knees and thank God that Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal were born, because they have carried this sport. They really have.” > [](https://twitter.com/BenRothenberg/status/711639541191299072) Moore continued to credit Williams with the success of the WTA and said there are “a lot of attractive” players to carry on her standard of leadership after she retires. Williams responded to Moore’s comments after her match, calling his claims “very, very, very inaccurate.” “Obviously I don’t think any woman should be down on their knee thanking anybody like that,” Williams [said](https://twitter.com/wta%5Finsider/status/711655837802979328), according to WTA Insider. “If I could tell you every day how many people say they don’t watch tennis unless they’re watching myself or my sister, I couldn’t even bring up that number. So I don’t think that is a very accurate statement. “I think there is a lot of women out there who are more—are very exciting to watch. I think there are a lot of men out there who are exciting to watch. I think it definitely goes both ways. I think those remarks are very much mistaken and very, very, very inaccurate.” > [](https://twitter.com/BillieJeanKing/status/711670246227050496) Moore [issued an apology](https://twitter.com/BenRothenberg/status/711657742340005889) shortly after his statements were published. “At my morning breakfast with the media, I made comments about the WTA that were in extremely poor taste and erroneous,” Moore said in the statement. “I am truly sorry for those remarks, and apologize to all the players and WTA as a whole. We had a women’s final today that reflects the strength of the players, especially Serena and Victoria, and the entire WTA. Again, I am truly sorry for my remarks.” [_This article originally appeared on SI.com_](http://www.si.com/tennis/2016/03/20/indian-wells-ceo-raymond-moore-wta-comments) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4265546/tennis-indian-wells-ceo-women/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4265546/tennis-indian-wells-ceo-women/"},"headline":"Indian Wells CEO Says Women’s Tennis Players Ride the Coattails of Men","datePublished":"2016-03-21T02:34:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T16:03:24.232Z","description":"Raymond Moore issued an apology shortly after his statements were published","url":"https://time.com/4265546/tennis-indian-wells-ceo-women/","keywords":["tennis"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt91858efad9e2d136/69888bb9524fc0892cdf7430/gettyimages-516741094.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Erin Flynn / Sports Illustrated"}],"articleSection":"Sports","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt91858efad9e2d136/69888bb9524fc0892cdf7430/gettyimages-516741094.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"2016 BNP Paribas Open - Day 14","caption":"CEO Raymond Moore address the audience at the trophy ceremony of the BNP Paribas Open at the Indian Wells Tennis Garden in Indian Wells, Calif., March 20, 2016.","creditText":"Matthew Stockman—Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/sports/","name":"Sports"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/tennis/","name":"tennis"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4265546/tennis-indian-wells-ceo-women/","name":"Indian Wells CEO Says Women’s Tennis Players Ride the Coattails of Men"}}]}] ```