NAGOYA, Japan \u2013 Taiwanese tennis players Hsieh Su-wei and Chan Hao-ching revived their feud at the Asian Games on Oct 3,\u00a0with Chan fuming at Hsieh for a handshake snub at the end of their women\u2019s doubles final in Nagoya.<\/p>\n
The pair did not shake hands following a tense US\u00a0Open\u00a0doubles match where\u00a0Hsieh\u2019s playing partner\u00a0Jelena Ostapenko roared at Chan\u2019s coach in the player\u2019s box after sealing victory.<\/p>\n
The Taiwanese rivals later traded barbs on social media about the incident.<\/p>\n
Chan on Oct 3 said she had been willing to put all that behind her after she and Wu\u00a0Fang-hsien lost\u00a06-4 4-6 (10-5) to Hsieh and Liang En-shuo in an all-Taiwan clash for the doubles gold at Higashiyama Park Tennis Center.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt the US\u00a0Open, I didn\u2019t shake her hand, and that\u2019s because in previous times I didn\u2019t get any response and I felt that there was no point in sticking my warm face to a cold butt,\u201d said the 33-year-old.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut today, I felt this is a match for (Taiwan). Before the match, I decided that I would stretch out my hand after the match. But I still didn\u2019t get to shake her hand.\u201d<\/p>\n
Chan said she was also disappointed during the tiebreaker when Taiwan\u2019s head tennis coach clapped for\u00a0Hsieh.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt that moment, I felt quite down. After all, his role today is the head coach,\u201d said Chan, who won the doubles gold at the Hangzhou Asian Games three years ago.<\/p>\n
Hsieh, a nine-times Grand Slam champion in doubles, played down the handshake snub.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s important to respect your opponents on court,\u201d the 40-year-old said.\u00a0\u201cIf my opponent doesn\u2019t respect me, what\u2019s there to say? I wouldn\u2019t feel like shaking hands, that\u2019s it.\u201d REUTERS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NAGOYA, Japan \u2013 Taiwanese tennis players Hsieh Su-wei and Chan Hao-ching revived their feud at the Asian Games…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":914910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-914909","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\/914909","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=914909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/914909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/914910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=914909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=914909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=914909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}