AUSTRALIAN Open tournament organisers face calls for Margaret Court’s name to be stripped from the arena that bears it because of her outspoken views against homosexuality.

Kerryn Phelps, one of Australia’s best-known gay women, said the former champion tennis player had gone beyond expressing a view about gay marriage and homosexuality to vilification of people living in same-sex relationships. “You have got a public landmark, in an iconic Australian sport like tennis, which is named after a person who is expressing views which are extremely hurtful to a lot of people,” Professor Phelps told The Australian. “There should be careful consideration given to changing the name.”

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