Azarenka's feedback come after she walked off courtroom in obvious bemusement, smiling with disbelief and shaking her head because the boos adopted her off courtroom and down the tunnel. She made a gesture in response, clasping her her fists collectively above her head, however is but to elucidate the rationale behind it.

Her opponent Svitolina, who had skilled booing on the French Open for failing to shake palms with three Russian and Belarusian opponents on her strategy to the quarter-finals, mentioned she had little sympathy consequently.

"Well, I got the same. I got the same in Paris. I played three matches in Paris in this way. Today, as well.

"For me personally, I believe the tennis organisations, they've to return out with a press release that there might be no handshake between Russian, Belarusian, and Ukrainian gamers. I do not know if it is perhaps not clear for individuals. Some individuals not likely know what is going on. So I believe that is the best strategy to do."