Tennis Player Ridiculously Accused Of Being Racist For Criticizing India After Bad Travel Experience

Tennis player Dejana Radanovic returned from a recent trip to India and gave an honest Yelp-style review of her experiences and boy, oh boy, did people not like what she had to say.

Some even called her the R-word… no, not that one; they called her a racist.

The Serbian is the No. 245 player in the world (what's your ranking? exactly) and she spent some time in India to play in three ITF tournaments in India. On her way home, Radanovic turned Instagram story and said "adios" to the Indian subcontinent.

"Adios India," she wrote, per Express. "See you never ever ever ever ever EVER again."

Jeez, Dejana. Tell us how you really feel…

Now, I've never been to India, but it seemed like an alright place. Yeah, it looks crowded, but if the Beatles could go there, come back, and bust out The White Album, how bad can it be?

Well, lucky for us, when Radanovic landed in Munich, she elaborated.

"Hello civilisation. Only those who have experienced something like India for 3 weeks can understand the feeling," she wrote, and then shared an article about what not to eat and drink in India. 

And speaking of what to eat, it was one thing she couldn't find in Indiana.

"I LOVE fruit and 3 weeks without it killed me," she wrote.

I too can understand fruit withdrawal. I'm like Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde when nectarines go out of season (holy s--t, I'm jonesing for a nectarine right now). However, it's not like there wasn't any fruit to be found. They had it, but a previous soured Radanovic on fruit in India… it also soured her stomach.

"You can obviously take fruit but the first time there a few years ago I did, and ended up with food poisoning and temperature for 39+ (Celsius, she wasn't hypothermic) for 4 days so this time it was a no no," she explained.

Tennis player Dejana Radanovic got some flack for talking about a less-than-great experience she had in India. (Photo by Walter Luger/GEPA pictures/Sipa USA)

Radanovic Talking About Her Bad Travel Experience Made Her Racist In The Eyes Of Morons

This all reads to me like someone who had a bad travel experience. It doesn't matter where it was too. If you visited the Greenbrier but wound up spending the whole time puking up bad bananas you'd never want to set foot in Greenbrier County, West Virginia ever again.

However, this is the internet in 2024, so to some dopes, this made Radanovic a racist.

"Coming from a white person this reeks of racism," an X user with the handle "@AlaskaWhines" (you can't make this stuff up, folks) wrote. "Nobody forced you to drink tap water. Drink mineral one or from an aquaguard, pretty cheap. Wash the fruits/vegetables. Nobody is asking you to lick them raw from roadside. You lack the brains, the country is fine."

So, Radanovic hopped back into the Instagram stories to explain herself. I understand the urge to do that, but remember you'd have better luck explaining yourself to a brick wall than you would some of these woke social media lunatics.

"Omg, I can’t believe what things we need to talk about really," she wrote. "1. I didn’t like India - the country. I didn’t like the food, traffic, hygiene (worms in the food, yellow pillows and dirty bed linen in the hotel, not knowing how to use roundabout etc).

"2. If you come to my country, Serbia, and you don’t like all those same things, that means you are a racist??? What the hell that has to do with racism?! I have friends all nationalities and colours so don’t go there cause it’s an absolute NONSENSE!"

All completely reasonable. But here's why trying to argue with critics like this is kind of a waste of energy. 

The next thing Radanovic did was talk about how, despite her lousy experiences, she encountered amazing people in India. This included one man who drove her to the courts each day in a tuk-tuk, which is what you get if you cross a motorcycle with a rickshaw.

"On one of the tournaments we had a guy who drove us on tuk-tuk to courts every day, had few dinners with him, buying chocolates and ice creams to him, gladly, and had a nice time," she said.

Most of us would see that as a nice story about people from different parts of the globe finding common ground and living in harmony. 

Unfortunately, others — in their bizarre, twisted mind — somehow saw that as further proof that Radanovic was racist.

…What?!

That's when if you're Dehana Radanovic you just toss the phone aside and say "That's enough internet for today…"