Unhealthy blood spilled over in Unhealthy Homburg on Sunday when Greece’s Maria Sakkari and Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva had been concerned in a centre court docket confrontation after their first-round match.
Sakkari emerged with a 7-5, 7-6 (6) victory within the Wimbledon tune-up occasion in Germany, however appeared lower than happy with Putintseva’s handshake on the internet.
“If you shake arms with somebody, look them within the eyes,” Sakkari mentioned in feedback picked up by the court docket microphone.
Putintseva responded with an exaggerated curtsy, with Sakkari then telling Putintseva: “Simply be like a human being.”
The duo continued to change barbs as Putintseva left for the locker room.
Sakkari informed an on-court interviewer there was no love misplaced between the pair.
“I do not assume she’s going to ask me for dinner for the remainder of our lives, however I do not care,” Sakkari mentioned. “I’ve excellent buddies and I am going to go to dinner with them. Let me go away it right here, and simply say that I’ve respect for her as a participant, however that is it.”
Sakkari will subsequent meet both Ekaterina Alexandrova or Belinda Bencic within the second spherical.
Wimbledon begins on June 30.
