{"id":3411,"date":"2025-03-24T10:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T10:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/sports\/french-open-crowd-boos-as-ukraines-marta-kostyuk-refuses-to-shake-hands-with-belarusian-aryna-sabalenka-cnn\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T10:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T10:37:11","slug":"french-open-crowd-boos-as-ukraines-marta-kostyuk-refuses-to-shake-hands-with-belarusian-aryna-sabalenka-cnn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ventil.rs\/blog\/sports\/french-open-crowd-boos-as-ukraines-marta-kostyuk-refuses-to-shake-hands-with-belarusian-aryna-sabalenka-cnn\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open crowd boos as Ukraine\u2019s Marta Kostyuk refuses to shake hands with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka | CNN"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<p>\n    <cite class=\"source__cite\"><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__location\" data-editable=\"location\"\/><br \/>\n      <span class=\"source__text\" data-editable=\"source\">CNN<\/span><br \/>\n        \u00a0\u2014\u00a0<br \/>\n    <\/cite>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-9705daa7e0f91ed9235dc68dd5e78beb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Ukrainian tennis player <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/03\/06\/tennis\/marta-kostyuk-ukraine-russia-wta-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Marta Kostyuk<\/a> refused to shake hands with Belarusian opponent <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/03\/22\/tennis\/aryna-sabalenka-locker-room-hate-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> following their opening round match at the <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/05\/27\/tennis\/french-open-preview-tennis-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">French Open<\/a>, leading to boos from some of the crowd.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-a199d3a7c089fffc858fb635fcdfd327@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After Sabalenka secured the 6-3 6-2 win, Kostyuk walked straight over to the umpire to shake her hand and then back to her seat, refusing to meet Sabalenka at the net for the customary handshake.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-55b1c21a7bc5d9ef46c55004915a7f17@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            There were then boos from the crowd at Roland Garros and again as Kostyuk made her way off the court.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-40f6ea53764bc7b22ba02ed5a6969689@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Kostyuk, who is from Kyiv, said at January\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/01\/16\/tennis\/australian-open-tennis-russian-flag-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Open<\/a> that she would not shake hands with any <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/01\/16\/tennis\/marta-kostyuk-tennis-russian-belarusian-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Russian or Belarusian opponent<\/a> with war raging in her country.\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/image-44037d34eb0712b1fd74b7265a13f43d@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"02 kostyuk sabalenka french open 0528\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101357-02-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101357-02-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101357-02-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101357-02-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101357-02-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-01e87e16e4e1460e87e9788d7a447512@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Sabalenka fielded some difficult questions in her post-match press conference, including from one reporter who accused her of \u201ctwisting it as if Ukrainians hate you\u201d and \u201cavoiding\u201d questions asking her to condemn the war, with Belarus being used as a key staging ground for Russia\u2019s war in Ukraine.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-e27ab934a243d503465cf7ced4907e57@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Sabalenka said in March that she <a href=\"https:\/\/cnn.com\/2023\/03\/22\/tennis\/aryna-sabalenka-locker-room-hate-spt-intl\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">struggled to understand the \u201chate\u201d<\/a> she encountered in the locker room amid strained relations between some players following Russia\u2019s invasion of Ukraine.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-3e19733345ae567990d4cd329f92d848@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cFirst of all, when I get questions about Ukrainians, they [journalists] ask me: \u2018So, you know that they hate you?\u2019 So I\u2019m answering the questions like: \u2018If they hate me.\u2019\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-aec292952e7063dc1e999a1d446976bc@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAbout the war situation, I said it many, many times, nobody in this world \u2013 Russian athletes, Belarusian athletes \u2013 supports the war. Nobody. How can we support the war? Normal people will never support it.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-0f0f566914fd6772d0f458a0cf71b555@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cWhy do we have to go loud [public] and say things, that\u2019s like saying \u2018one plus one is two,\u2019 you know, of course we don\u2019t support war. And if you could affect the war in any way, if we could stop it, we would do it, but unfortunately it\u2019s not in our hands.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/image\/instances\/image-9fde491e933a738d18046438d746a30e@published\" class=\"image image__hide-placeholder\" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-name=\"03 kostyuk sabalenka french open 0528\" data-component-name=\"image\" data-observe-resizes=\"\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\" data-original-ratio=\"0.6666666666666666\" data-original-height=\"2000\" data-original-width=\"3000\" data-url=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101555-03-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?c=original\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<div class=\"image__container \" data-image-variation=\"image\" data-breakpoints=\"{\" image--eq-extra-small=\"\">\n       <picture class=\"image__picture\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(max-width: 479px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101555-03-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_680,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 480px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101555-03-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1160,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 960px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101555-03-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1015,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" media=\"(min-width: 1280px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101555-03-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\/f_webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/230528101555-03-kostyuk-sabalenka-french-open-0528.jpg?q=w_1110,c_fill\" alt=\"Sabalenka advanced to the second round in straight sets.\" class=\"image__dam-img image__dam-img--loading\" onload=\"this.classList.remove('image__dam-img--loading')\" onerror=\"imageLoadError(this)\" height=\"2000\" width=\"3000\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-d11bb5d29e0e8c828f8e1a7ac37c3fc9@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Sabalenka later added that she understands why Ukrainian players don\u2019t shake her hand and said Kostyuk didn\u2019t deserve to be booed by the crowd.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-45db2bd30a61fffb5e5b4457a9c91ad7@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Russian and Belarusian players are currently still competing on the tours as neutral athletes without their flag or country displayed.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph-785c40b4a131cbf2b284e4f5da69fb09@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            After winning the ATX Open in Texas in March, Kostyuk also refused to shake hands with beaten Russian opponent Varvara Gracheva.\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2023\/05\/28\/tennis\/french-open-marta-kostyuk-aryna-sabalenka-spt-intl\/index.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN \u00a0\u2014\u00a0 Ukrainian tennis player Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with Belarusian opponent Aryna Sabalenka following their opening round match at the French Open, leading to boos from some of the crowd. 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