{"id":270132,"date":"2025-11-04T03:38:19","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:38:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270132\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T03:38:19","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T03:38:19","slug":"why-madison-keys-and-amanda-anisimova-didnt-shake-hands-after-wta-finals-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/270132\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Madison Keys and Amanda Anisimova didn\u2019t shake hands after WTA Finals match"},"content":{"rendered":"

Madison Keys<\/a> signalled that she was feeling ill as she avoided shaking hands with Amanda Anisimova<\/a> after her defeat to her fellow American at the WTA Finals<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Keys, the Australian Open champion, is now out of the WTA Finals after defeats to Iga Swiatek<\/a> and Anisimova in her first two matches in Riyadh.<\/p>\n

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Anisimova and Keys both struggled throughout the match, which was their first meeting. Anisimova was visibly upset as she trailed by a set and a break but recovered to win 4-6 6-3 6-2.<\/p>\n

After Anisimova sealed victory, Keys made a gesture to Anisimova that she was dealing with an illness and didn\u2019t want to pass it on – pointing towards her chest and stomach area.<\/p>\n

Anisimova appeared to laugh it off, with both players instead returning to the side of the court after a brief conversation across the net. Keys also chose not to shake hands with the umpire.<\/p>\n

Jasmine Paolini<\/a> is reportedly also struggling with illness at the WTA Finals, while Keys may decide to withdraw from the tournament ahead of her dead-rubber against Elena Rybakina.<\/p>\n

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Rybakina is already through as the group winner while Anisimova and Swiatek will meet on Wednesday to determine who go advances as the runner-up.<\/p>\n

There was another comeback in the earlier match as Rybakina won 12 of the final 13 games against Swiatek to beat the World No 2, winning 3-6 6-1 6-0.<\/p>\n

Swiatek beat Anisimova 6-0 6-0 in the Wimbledon final in July, with the American getting revenge when they met in the US Open quarter-finals a few weeks later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Madison Keys signalled that she was feeling ill as she avoided shaking hands with Amanda Anisimova after her…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[3842,2660,12764,99,428,119263],"class_list":{"0":"post-270132","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-amanda-anisimova","9":"tag-iga-swiatek","10":"tag-madison-keys","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-tennis","13":"tag-wta-finals"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270132","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=270132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}