Vera Zvonareva has been named a “Promoter of Gender Equality” as part of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour’s partnership with UNESCO.
Zvonareva’s role will be to raise awareness of gender equality issues, and have a direct involvement in current and future women’s leadership programs to be developed through the UNESCO-Tour partnership.
Here’s what the world No.6 Russian said about the honor:
I think that the UNESCO-Sony Ericsson WTA Tour partnership is incredibly important and this is a role that I value highly and will work extremely hard in helping young girls and women all around the world to gain better opportunities to succeed in whatever they wish to do. In particular I very much believe in the importance and value of education and the rights of all women and girls to have equal access to it.
Other WTA players that already have that role are Venus Williams, Tatiana Golovin and Zheng Jie, as well as Tour founder Billie Jean King, who was named “Global Mentor for Gender Equality” in November last year. (source: Sony Ericsson WTA Tour, photo: Stephane Martinache)
How is her health and will she be participating in Roland Garros?
The last I read was that Zvonareva has an ankle injury and we won’t see her at the French Open. Here’s the link: http://womenwhoserve.blogspot.com/2009/05/injury-update.html