No, I’m sorry, this cover is bullshit. The issue is less about suggestive photographs as such than about the implication that even as sportsperson of the year, she is still most useful as a potential sex object. Why not show a photo of her playing tennis or holding a racket or something like that?

Because it’s SI’s sportsman of the year award and not some fucking ESPN commercial shoot?

This is a canonical example of mansplaining.