"Refuse shaking hands"

"A nervous scene"! After the US Open, Ukraine players refused to shake hands with Belarusian players.

On September 1st, in the 2022 U.S. Tennis Open women's singles competition, Belarusian Azaronka defeated Ukrainian player Coschuk in two innings. According to media reports such as Reuters, a "tension scene" appeared after the game, and Koschuk refused to shake hands with Azaronka in front of the Internet. The two finally ended the game with the "touch racket" action. This incident caused controversy on the Internet.

The live video showed that after Coschuk lost the game, he took the lead to the net and raised the racket. Azaronka then racated the racket and touched it.

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The American "Business Insider" website quoted the Associated Press that about this line, Coschuk sent a message to Azaronka in advance on August 30, saying that she wanted to meet her and told her that she did not want to shake hands on the field. It is reported that after the game, Coschuk said that shaking hands in the situation is "not a correct thing."

On September 1st, after the 2022 U.S. Tennis Open women's singles competition, after Belarusian player Azaronka defeated Ukrainian player Coschuk (left), the two ended the screenshot of the game video with the "touch racket" action.

Reuters said that Azareka also responded after the game, saying that he was "not surprised." "I don't feel surprised. I don't think I need to do a lot of questions. I usually shake hands with my opponent." Azaronka said, "I can't force others to shake hands with me. This is their decision. What does this make me feel? It's not the most important thing in the world now. "

On September 1st, after the 2022 U.S. Tennis Open women's singles competition, after the Belarusian player Azareka defeated the Ukrainian player Coschuk (left), the two ended the game with the "touch racket" action.

Regarding this incident, Reuters stated that this marks the spread of Russia and Ukraine's conflict and geopolitical tensions to the US Open, "disturbing people." According to the report, Ukrainian player Coschuk has also recently called on Russian players to from participating in the competition. In addition, just before the game with Belarus Azaronka on September 1, she also publicly opposed the latter's public welfare activities to collect humanitarian aid for Ukraine organized by the latter, which caused the latter to be forced to withdraw.

This incident caused controversy on the Internet. Some netizens support the behavior of Coschuk's refusing handshake: "Good do, like Ukraine." "Russia and Belarus should be banned."

However, some netizens did not seem to agree that the behavior of refusing to shake hands is ridiculous and difficult to understand: "absurd." "Oh" "I don't like this."

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