Naked pictures of Wimbledon number three seed Agnieska Radwanska stoked a long-running feud with her tennis coach father, the star's mother revealed today. Now Marta Radwanska has claimed her daughter had had enough of Robert's strict, demanding regime, that he refused to let his daughters have a boyfriend - and that she found the controversial naked images 'in good taste'. He shouted at her on the courts and would always get angry. Good taste: The tennis star apparently posed for the images in an act of rebellion after her father left her mother. Robert Radwanksi is said to have reacted in fury when he saw them.
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By Matthew Day , Warsaw. The year-old raised eyebrows in Christian circles in Poland with the pictures for an edition of the American magazine ESPN entitled "The Body" which showed her sitting by a pool and lying face down on an inflatable lilo. But in a statement posted in both English and Polish on her Facebook page, Miss Radwanska said: "The pictures are not meant to cause offence and to brand them as immoral does not take into account the context of the magazine. Although she retained her modesty in the photographs, despite being minus clothes, conservative critics were quick to round on Miss Radwanska, especially given that she is a practicing Catholic from a devout family and once proclaimed she was "not ashamed of her faith. Ambulance dumps victim's body by roadside. Why tennis star Agnieszka Radwanska was right strip off. Radwanska under fire for naked photo shoot. Lisicki v Bartoli: as it happened. Radwanska digs deep to defeat Li Na.
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The world number four, who was photographed naked while sitting beside a swimming pool filled with tennis balls, came under fire in her largely Catholic country with priests and a Catholic youth group calling her behaviour immoral. The Catholics reacted like I did a photo shoot for a men's magazine. I was surprised because they didn't even know what I exactly the photo shoot was. Radwanska, whose arms and positioning in the photo cover her private areas, is one of 21 athletes that appear nude in the annual issue that showcases the physiques of athletes, including a cover photo of year-old golfer Gary Player. Three days ago, Radwanska took to Facebook to defend herself.
Known for making intelligent use of the court, [3] [4] [5] she won twenty career singles titles and achieved a career-high singles ranking of world No. On 14 November she retired, citing the physical strain. Her younger sister, Urszula , is also a tennis player. According to Forbes in she was the ninth highest-earning female athlete in the world. She went on to win the junior French Open title in with a victory over Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova. She advanced to the quarterfinals, where she lost to Elena Dementieva in three sets. At the Wimbledon Championships , she lost in the fourth round to Kim Clijsters. She exited in the fourth round following a loss to Tathiana Garbin.
