Chinese Teen Knocked Out of French Open Due to Bad Period Cramps: 'I Wish I Can Be a Man'

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Zheng Qinwen, a 19-year-old tennis player, lost a match at the grand slam tournament after taking a medical time out for intense menstrual pain.

posited that the athlete “blame[d]” her defeat “on menstrual cramps,” presenting the cramps as an excuse and not a medical ailment that plagues, you know, most people on the planet with a uterus.

“It’s just girls’ things, you know. The first day is always so tough and then I have to do sport and I always have so much pain in the first day, and I couldn’t go against my nature,” Qinwen continued. “I wish I can be a man on court, but I cannot in that moment...I really wish I can be [a] man [so] that I don’t have to suffer from this.

 

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