Yulia Putintseva received a wave of blunders from the American public after taking a defiant stance towards a young ball walker. The player ended up apologizing on her social networks.
He US Open 2024 It is starting to enter its final phase and the tension increases as the matches go on. However, this does not justify discourteous and arrogant behavior, especially if you find yourself in front of a respectful audience like the one that has always characterized tennis.
Apparently, tennis player Yulia Putintseva did not understand this. During the match against the Italian Jasmine Paolina, corresponding to the third round of the last Grand Slam of the year, the Kazakh player who was nationalized by Russia committed a reprehensible act which earned her numerous boos from the spectators present on the Louis Armstrong court.
As she prepared to receive the balls and serve, the world number 32 stood motionless, in a provocative and unfriendly posture, in front of a young ball passer who was preparing to offer her the yellow balls. There, the athlete did not even flinch and contemptuously rejected the first and second balls, even though they passed close to her and touched her body. The third accepted it, but almost as if it were an obligation.
Faced with the obvious lack of respect, mistakes were quick to come down from the stands and were turned against the Kazakhs. who, to add negative aspects to his criticized day, ended up losing 6-3 and 6-4 against Italica.
After the elimination was carried out and her controversial action went viral, Puntintseva took to social media to give her version of events. “I want to apologize to the ball girl for the way I behaved when she offered me the balls. Honestly, I wasn’t going to her. I was really angry at myself for not winning the match with a break point. “I was left emotionless and lost in my thoughts, because I wasn’t even focused on what was happening and who was giving me the ball,” she says.
Likewise, to dispel any questions, the tennis player congratulated the circuit workers for their work in the tournament played on North American soil. “All the ball girls did incredible things, as always at the Open,” he concluded.
Source: Latercera
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