Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina did not shake hands with the russian woman Anna Blinkova after the match of the third round of Roland-Garros.
The game ended with the score 2:6, 6:2, 7:5 in favor of Svitolina. After the match, the Ukrainian and the Russian approached the referee on the tower, but did not shake hands. The public reacted to the event with a whistle.
Previously, Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with Belarusian Arina Sobolenko after losing in the Roland Garros match.
Svitolina’s next opponent will be another Russian representative, Daria Kasatkina, seeded under the ninth number.
Source : MatchTV
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