{"id":829086,"date":"2026-05-29T02:17:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/829086\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T02:17:23","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T02:17:23","slug":"at-french-open-a-rare-snub-over-a-handshake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/829086\/","title":{"rendered":"At French Open, a Rare Snub Over a Handshake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Tamara Korpatsch&#8217;s trip to the French Open third round came with <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tntsports\/status\/2059641763552235759\" rel=\"nofollow\">a post-match chill<\/a>, not a sportsmanlike handshake. After a three-set win over 32nd seed Wang Xinyu on Wednesday, the German skipped the usual gesture, saying she felt wrongly cast as a rule-bender over a disputed line call late in the first set, reports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/sports\/tennis\/korpatsch-defends-handshake-snub-after-tense-win-over-wang-2026-05-27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a>. Wang had walked around the net to inspect the ball mark on Korpatsch&#8217;s side, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tntsports\/status\/2059599001964445746\" rel=\"nofollow\">earning a code violation<\/a> for unsportsmanlike conduct and setting the tone for a tense finish on Court 7.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Korpatsch insisted the shot was out, noting the chair umpire checked the mark and TV replays with Hawk-Eye showed the ball just outside the line. She said Wang later suggested she wasn&#8217;t fair, a claim Korpatsch rejected: &#8220;There are cameras on court and they can check everything\u2026 For me, it would be embarrassing to cheat like that.&#8221; The French Open, unlike other majors, still relies on clay marks rather than fully electronic line calls, leaving room for disputes. You can see the non-handshake <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/tntsports\/status\/2059641763552235759\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>. Korpatsch, in her first third round at Roland Garros, next faces No. 7 seed Elina Svitolina.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Tamara Korpatsch&#8217;s trip to the French Open third round came with a post-match chill, not a sportsmanlike&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":829087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[48],"tags":[1823,180900,64706,62,1464,67,132,193767,68],"class_list":["post-829086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-french-open","tag-handshake","tag-roland-garros","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-unsportsmanlike-conduct","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116655466164243022","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=829086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/829086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/829087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=829086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=829086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=829086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}