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<\/a><\/p>\nWatch German Tamara Korpatsch reject Wang Xinyu\u2019s extended hand and blow off the traditional post-match handshake after upsetting the 32nd-seeded Chinese 6-2, 2-6, 6-3 to reach the Roland Garros third round for the first time in her career.<\/p>\n
Though Korpatsch\u2019s hand seems to brush Wang\u2019s briefly, the 95th-ranked German pulls her hand away and declines the handshake prompting boos from some fans.<\/p>\n
Why did Korpatsch, after reaching her first major third round in her 12th Grand Slam appearance, refuse to press palms?<\/p>\n
Earlier in the match, Wang violated a cardinal tennis rule by crossing around the net and walking to the German\u2019s side of the court to closely inspect a ball mark on a line call.<\/p>\n
The two players both stood near the baseline gazing at marks and arguing over which was the correct ball mark before the chair umpire came out on court.<\/p>\n
Afterward, Korpatsch said she saw both ball marks out and declined the handshake because she felt Wang accused her of cheating.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think she said, like, something that she thought that I\u2019m not a fair player or something like that, but we have one of the best chair umpires on the court, and I don\u2019t know how to cheat, honestly,\u201d Korpatsch said. \u201cThere are many cameras on court and they can check everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cHonestly, for me, it would be embarrassing to cheat like that. I\u2019m serious, I\u2019m honest, that when I was running, I thought the ball is out, and I was, like, okay, which one is it? I didn\u2019t know which mark, but for that, we have the referee.\u201d<\/p>\n
Wang incurred a code violation for her transgression. Korpatsch said Wang\u2019s team told her the ball was good, possibly provoking her walk to check the mark, but added she saw a Hawk-Eye replay that showed the ball landed long.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere was a ball, it was really long ball from her, and I saw it out. I don\u2019t know if the line umpires called it out or not, but there were two ball marks, actually,\u201d Korpatsch said. \u201cAnd the one was the old one and the other one was the new one.<\/p>\n
\u201cBoth of them were out, so it doesn\u2019t matter. I didn\u2019t know which one was the right one, but the line umpire came down and showed the mark, and it was out.<\/p>\n
\u201cActually, also on the TV, they showed the Hawk-Eye and it was, like, eight millimeters out. Yeah, she came on my side, because she didn\u2019t believe it. Because I think her team did, like, too much, yeah, talked like too much, because they thought it\u2019s in\u2026 at the end, we didn\u2019t have a handshake because she told me she\u2019s not okay with that, with the ball marks, and everything.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut I cannot say that I gift her the point for nothing. But I\u2019m a bit surprised over that, because normally we have a good relationship and we are not like enemies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Wang walk around the net post today will remind some French Open fans of Martina Hingis famously crossing the line to inspect a ball mark in the 1999 Roland Garros final vs. Steffi Graf.<\/p>\n
Swiss Miss Hingis was in control leading 6-4, 2-0 when she hit a forehand return down the line that was called out by the lines crew.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo,\u201d Hingis immediately said before walking around the net post all the way to the opposite baseline to check the mark. In that case, Hingis appeared to be right, her shot looked good, but she not only lost the point she incurred a point penalty for crossing the net followed by her debate with the chair umpire.<\/p>\n
Though Hingis initially tried to smile off the dispute, it proved to be the turning point as French fans repeatedly jeered and whistled at the Swiss Miss, Hingis\u2019s concentration cracked and Graf came back to win the match 4-6, 7-5, 6-2 and take the title. That comeback win by Graf, the only player in history to complete the calendar Golden Grand Slam, denied Hingis the career Grand Slam.<\/p>\n
Today, Wang lost the argument and the match.<\/p>\n
On a steamy day with tempers running hot, both Wang and Korpatsch kicked etiquette to the curb and engaged in raw rivalry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, May 27, 2026Photo credit: TNT Screen Shot Blistering heat struck Roland Garros Day…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690031,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-698550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698550","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690031"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}