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Ukraine’s Elina Svitolina reveals the Citi Open organizers are planning to announce before her Washington first-round match that there will be no handshake at the end of her match against Belarusia’s Victoria Azarenka.
At her press conference at ATP/WTA 500 Washington, Elina Svitolina said that she talked yesterday with WTA CEO Steve Simon, who told her that they will announce to the crowd before her match tomorrow night vs Azarenka that there will be no handshake.
“I’m happy with that.” — Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) July 30, 2023
Three weeks ago, Azarenka was booed off court following a Wimbledon round-of-16 loss to Svitolina.
At the French Open, Svitolina was booed off court following a loss to Belarusia’s Aryna Sabalenka. Both times, there wasn’t a handshake at the end of the match. After Azarenka got heavily booed at Wimbledon, Svitolina suggested that Wimbledon releasing a statement could prevent that from happening again.“Well, I got the same.
I got the same in Paris. I played three matches in Paris in this way. Today, as well. For me personally, I think the tennis organizations, they have to come out with a statement that there will be no…
