{"id":153180,"date":"2025-09-13T05:23:22","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153180\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T05:23:22","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T05:23:22","slug":"video-veronika-kudermetova-snubs-handshake-with-victoria-jimenez-kasintseva-after-shocking-defeat-in-guadalajara","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/153180\/","title":{"rendered":"(VIDEO) Veronika Kudermetova snubs handshake with Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva after shocking defeat in Guadalajara"},"content":{"rendered":"

Andora\u2019s Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva<\/a>‘s biggest win of her career ended with an interesting incident, which left everyone surprised at the Guadalajara Open. The WTA 500 event is
\nmoving towards the end, where only eight players remain who will compete
\nin the quarterfinals on Friday.<\/p>\n

One of those players will be Kasintseva, who stunned Veronika
\nKudermetova of Russia in the round of 16 in straight sets with a score of 6-4,
\n6-2. It was Kasintseva\u2019s fourth consecutive straight-set win in the competition.
\nAfter the match, however, an interesting situation arose that left the
\nfans surprised.<\/p>\n

After the contest, while walking to the net, Kudermetova decided not to shake hands with Kasintseva and instead shook the hand of the chair umpire and went straight to her seat, where she packed her bag and decided to leave the court. It is not clear why Kasintseva decided to do such a thing, as nothing happened between the two players in the match.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time that players have unilaterally decided not to shake hands with their opponents, especially in women\u2019s tennis. The incidents became more consistent, especially since the start of Russia\u2019s war with Ukraine. The armed conflict, which has resulted in the loss
\nof lives on both sides, started back in 2022 and is still going on.<\/p>\n

Shocking decision<\/p>\n

During the 2023 Wimbledon, Ukraine\u2019s Elina Svitolina
\ndecided not to shake hand with the former world number one Victoria Azarenka.
\nHer decision was in protest of Russia\u2019s war against Ukraine. Interestingly, Azarenka
\nbelongs to Belarus who are Russia\u2019s closest ally it widely believed that the Belarusian
\ngovernment provides full support in their military campaign again Ukraine.<\/p>\n

It was not the first time that Svitolina did that, back then, as she did something similar during the French Open as well, when she decided not to shake hands with the current world number one, Aryna Sabalenka, who is also from Belarus. Interestingly, after the match, it was Azarenka who was
\nbooed by the crowd, even though she had never decided not to shake hands with her
\nopponent.<\/p>\n

After the match, Azarenka, while speaking to the media,
\nstated that she did not have much choice but to respect Svitolina, who did not
\nwant to shake hands with Russian and Belarusian athletes. “What should I
\nhave done? Stayed and waited?” asked Azarenka after the match. “She
\ndoesn’t want to shake hands with Russian, Belarusian people. I respected her
\ndecision.”<\/p>\n

Kasintseva is from Andorra, and as things stand, there is no conflict between Andorra and Russia, which makes Kudermetova’s decision not to shake hands even more shocking. Kasintseva\u2019s next opponent will be
\nAmerica\u2019s Iva Jovic, who cemented her spot in the quarterfinal of the ongoing mega-event
\nafter beating Colombia\u2019s Camila Osorio in straight sets with a score of 6-4,
\n6-2.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andora\u2019s Victoria Jimenez Kasintseva‘s biggest win of her career ended with an interesting incident, which left everyone surprised…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-153180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}