Ukrainian tennis player Kostyuk and Russian Potapova did not shake hands after the match
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The meeting between Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk and Russian Anastasia Potapova in the first round of a tennis tournament in the British city of Birmingham took place without an exchange of handshakes.
The athletes did not extend their hands to each other after the end of the match, which was tense and long. As a result, Potapova won with a score of 6:7 (6:8), 7:5, 6:4. Marta Kostyuk, after the end of the game, immediately went to collect her things, while Anastasia Potapova came up to shake hands with the referee, showing sports etiquette.
This is not the first time that these two tennis players do not shake hands after matches. Earlier at the WTA 1000 tournament in Miami, they also did not congratulate each other after meeting in the second round, where Potapova won.
In addition, Marta Kostyuk showed a refusal to shake hands in other situations. For example, after the final match in Austin, she refused to shake hands with Russian Varvara Gracheva due to disagreements regarding a special operation in Ukraine. Also at the 2022 US Open, she did not shake hands with Belarusian tennis players Alexandra Sosnovich and Victoria Azarenka.
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