Tennis stars clash following game-ending handshake: 'Nobody likes you'

Professional tennis players Maria Sakkari and Yulia Putintseva were seen successful a heated clash pursuing their lucifer astatine the Bad Homberg Open connected Sunday.

Sakkari defeated Putintseva 7-5, 7-6 (6) to determination connected to the adjacent circular of the tennis tournament. As the 2 competitors came to the net, Putintseva slapped Sakkari’s manus and failed to marque oculus interaction arsenic she walked toward the seat umpire.

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March 22, 2025; Miami, FL: Maria Sakkari (GRE) reacts aft winning a constituent against Coco Gauff (USA)(not pictured) connected time 5 of the Miami Open astatine Hard Rock Stadium. (Geoff Burke-Imagn Images)

Sakkari started jawing astatine Putintseva, and Putintseva responded with a curtsy. Sakkari didn’t look to similar what Putintseva said aft that and stepped implicit toward her broadside to code the comment.

"Nobody likes you," Sakkari was heard telling Putintseva connected the broadcast.

Sakkari addressed the incidental successful her post-match interrogation aft Putintseva walked toward the locker room.

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Kazakhstan's Yulia Putintseva successful enactment during her round-of-32 lucifer against Britain's Heather Watson successful Britain. (Action Images via Reuters/Andrew Couldridge)

"I don't deliberation she's going to invitation maine for meal for the remainder of our lives, but I don't care, to beryllium honest," she said, via Tennis.com. "I person precise bully friends, and I'll spell to meal with them. Let maine permission it here, and conscionable accidental that I person respect for her arsenic a player, but that's it."

Sakkari precocious to the Round of 16 and awaits her adjacent opponent. The Greek prima volition person Wimbledon connected her caput arsenic she competes successful this tournament. She has 2 vocation singles titles successful her vocation and made it arsenic acold arsenic the 3rd circular of Wimbledon 4 times, including 2024.

Greece's Maria Sakkari successful enactment during her circular of 64 lucifer against Poland's Magda Linette successful France. (REUTERS/Aleksandra Szmigiel)

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Putintseva, of Kazakhstan, has 3 singles titles successful her career. She made it arsenic acold arsenic the 4th circular of Wimbledon past year. 

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