US Open star snubs handshake with Eugenie Bouchard after rival’s unprovoked dig
Four months in the past, Bouchard beat Yastremska on the Madrid Open (6-7, 6-2, 6-2) in her first principal draw win on the occasion since triumphing over Maria Sharapova en path to the quarterfinals in 2017. After the victory, she took to Twitter and aimed an unprovoked dig at Yastremska and Sharapova for his or her previous doping violations. “There’s something about playing dopers in Madrid,” she wrote.
Yastremska examined constructive for the banned substance Mesterolone in a WADA medicine take a look at again in November 2020 earlier than being cleared later that 12 months of any wrongdoing. Meanwhile, Sharapova beforehand served a 15-month suspension for taking returning opposed findings for the banned substance Meldonium, which she had been taking for over a decade to assist along with her sick well being, having first been suggested to take the drug by a physician in 2006 when it was not on the WADA’s banned substances listing.
Bouchard’s tweet obtained a combined reception from followers and was subsequently deleted from social media shortly after she had posted it.