Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva continues to apologize amid a wave of backlash for her unsportsmanlike habits on the U.S. Open, the place followers felt the Russian-born tennis participant humiliated a ball woman throughout her third spherical loss.
Putintseva, 29, issued a second apology on social media Wednesday as criticism continued to mount over the awkward interplay when she appeared to offer the ball woman a chilly shoulder in the course of the second set of her 6-3, 6-4 loss to Italy’s Jasmine Poalini on Saturday.
Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan reacts throughout a match towards Jasmine Paolini of Italy in the course of the third spherical of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (AP Photograph/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
A visibly pissed off Putintseva stood immobile because the ball woman tossed her two tennis balls, letting each bounce into her earlier than lastly attempting to catch the third.
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Followers deemed the second disrespectful and humiliating for the woman. Putintseva apologized, saying that she was upset by her efficiency.
Nonetheless, in a second apology, she turned her consideration towards her critics and denied doing “something disrespectful.”
“It is type of scary the best way [the] world can choose somebody from only a 3 second video, that somebody posts from one facet, with out seeing the remaining [of] what was actually occurring,” she wrote in a put up on Instagram. “I used to be simply enjoying tennis and misplaced a tricky sport, which was very shut (for my part) to show that match round.”
A ball woman runs in direction of the court docket on Day 10 of the 2024 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King Nationwide Tennis Heart on Sept. 4, 2024 within the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens borough of New York Metropolis. (Luke Hales/Getty Pictures)
YULIA PUTINTSEVA SLAMMED FOR HUMILIATING US OPEN BALL GIRL IN AWKWARD INTERACTION
She included two footage that she says present her feelings for the time being.
“After the sport (as you may see on a pic) I acquired very a lot upset and was nearly crying, that I did not do higher. Presently the woman was [giving] me the ball, which I did not even discover or so, as a result of I used to be deep in my ideas…”
“I used to be not attempting to humiliate her (or anybody) by not taking this ball that she was given to me. I did not do something disrespectful to anybody at this specific second. I do apologize, if this woman thinks that it was one thing in direction of her.”
Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan reacts throughout a match towards Jasmine Paolini of Italy in the course of the third spherical of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (AP Photograph/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Putintseva stated the woman, who she recognized as Kate, was “very good” and that she was engaged on doing “one thing particular for her.” She added that she by no means seen herself as above anybody.
“I am unable to say that I’m good all my profession. I get offended on court docket, pissed, saying silly stuff and curse like no tomorrow typically,” she continued. “However I by no means put myself ‘on prime’ of somebody. That’s simply not me in any respect. Hope you guys can see it now from the totally different angle now. I imply, I do know that [haters] gonna hate…”
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