No handshake, boos from a “drunk crowd” and the guilty Pimm’s: “It was unfair”
LONDON - The handshake at the net. That gesture that is taught from a young age in tennis schools as a sign of respect for the opponent that cannot be negotiated, whether the match has gone one way or the
“We share locker room with people who want us dead”: tension increase between Ukrainians and WTA
LONDON - During a Wimbledon edition with less political discussion than expected, one of the Ukrainian tennis key actors spiced up with a series of allegations: "We share locker rooms with people who want our families dead and our people
“My reaction was like, what are you doing? I’m not shaking hands” – Svitolina surprised about Sabalenka’s attitude
There was only one certainty about what would happen after the match between Ukraine's Elina Svitolina and Belarus' Aryna Sabalenka. Or rather, it was known what would not happen: there would be no handshake at the net. Sabalenka won, celebrated,
Tension in the stands, tension in the press room: the temperature is rising and rising at Roland Garros.
PARIS - In the middle of the night in Paris, an American tennis player gives the French crowd the silent signal and is dismissed with a thunderous boo. In the middle of the day, a journalist tells a Russian tennis
The war in Ukraine takes centre court at Roland Garros
If you decided overnight to stop watching tennis at Roland Garros and get in a car, you would be at war in just over 18 hours: that's how long it takes to drive from Paris to Lviv, the westernmost city