Dellacqua responds to Court: Not OK to single out my family

Casey Dellacqua made it clear Wednesday that she isn't happy about Margaret Court's stance on same-sex marriage.

Dellacqua, a doubles player from Australia who has two children with her partner, Amanda Judd, was criticized by Court in 2013.

"This child has been deprived of his father," Court wrote in a letter, according to Bonnie D. Ford of ESPN. "I simply want to champion the rights of the family over the rights of the individual to engineer social norms and produce children into their relationships."

Dellacqua didn't respond then, but after Court's recent comments about same-sex marriage, she could no longer hold back.

"I'm very conscious of the fact that everyone is allowed their opinion, but when you start singling out my family especially, that's when it's not OK," Dellacqua said, according to Ford. "And my family do not deserve to be subject to that. She can have her opinion, but my family does not deserve that and did not deserve that. That's when I thought, you know what, it's my time to speak up."

Some have called for Court's name to be removed from Melbourne Park Arena over her comments. Fellow Aussie Sam Stosur stopped short of commenting on the stadium, but made it clear she supports Dellacqua.

"It's not for me to comment really whether it should or shouldn't stay Margaret Court Arena," Stosur said. "It's named that because of her tennis and her history of tennis. Her views are hers, but obviously we all, or a lot of us anyway, have very different opinions."