Ukrainian Elina Svitolina booed for refusing to shake hands with Arina Sobolenko at Roland Garros
Spectators booed Ukrainian tennis player Elina Svitolina after she refused to shake hands with Belarusian Arina Sobolenko after the quarterfinal match at Roland Garros. It is reported by “Championship”.
According to the source, the French fans in the stands of the court did not support the athlete. Svitolina went to shake hands with the judge on the tower and did not greet the Belarusian. When she began to collect things, she heard whistling and disapproving exclamations in response.
The meeting ended with Sobolenko’s victory in two sets with a score of 6:4, 6:4. For the first time in her career, the Belarusian reached the semi-finals of Roland Garros.
Also, the fans behaved in the past matches of Svitolina in Paris, when the Ukrainian did not shake hands with the Russians Anna Blinkova and Daria Kasatkina. She won them in the third and fourth rounds.
Source: Lenta
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