Tennis - Australian Open - Quarterfinals - Rod Laver Arena, Melbourne, Australia, January 24, 2018. Tennys Sandgren of the U.S. leaves after losing against Chung Hyeon of South Korea. REUTERS/Thomas Peter
MELBOURNE (Reuters) - An angry Tennys Sandgren slammed journalists for "demonising" him with "sensationalist" reporting on his social media links to right-wing activists but said the controversy had not affected him during his Australian Open quarter-final loss to South Korea's Chung Hyeon.
The 26-year-old world number 97 deleted several years of posts on his Twitter account on Tuesday as he sought to draw a line under the controversy with a "version of a cleaner start".
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