How Elina Svitolina’s no-handshake policy won over the French.
rebuke from the French sports minister
for his comments on clashes in Kosovo. Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk was roundly booed after refusing to shake hands with Belorussian Aryna Sabalenka. And Sabalenka, the Belorussian second-seed who won the Australian Open in January, got into a tense exchange with a Ukrainian journalist at her post-match press conference. Sabalenka said, “Nobody in this world, Russian athletes or Belarusian athletes, support the war.
Like all Russian and Belorussian players, Kasatkina is playing as a neutral, a cosmetic punishment imposed in part as a result of a demand from Svitolina and the other Ukrainian competitors. The two aggressor countries in Ukraine have produced an enormous number of great active tennis players, and the war has been a live issue at press conferences and in locker rooms since it began last spring.
But not all players have responded the same way. The Russian world No. 7 Andrey Rublev, for example, memorably“No war please” on a TV camera glass at a tournament in February 2022. And there’s hardly a more sympathetic figure among them than Svitolina’s Sunday opponent Daria Kasatkina, an openly gay player who has been threatened with Russia’s
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