French Open 2023: Daria Kasatkina 'leaving Paris with very bitter feeling' after boos

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Daria Kasatkina gives Elina Svitolina a thumbs up astatine extremity of the match

Dates: 28 May-11 June. Venue: Roland Garros, Paris.
Coverage: Live substance and vigor commentaries of selected matches crossed BBC Radio 5 Sports Extra, the BBC Sport website and app.

Russian Daria Kasatkina says she is "leaving Paris with a precise bitter feeling" aft being booed astatine the extremity of her French Open lucifer against Ukrainian Elina Svitolina.

Kasatkina has spoken retired against Russia's warfare successful Ukraine and knew Svitolina would instrumentality to her argumentation of not shaking hands with Russian oregon Belarusian players.

Svitolina, who bushed ninth effect Kasatkina 6-4 7-6 (7-5), acknowledged the 26-year-old astatine the extremity of the lucifer and said she had been "brave" to criticise her nation's actions.

On Monday, Kasatkina tweeted: "Leaving Paris with a precise bitter feeling. All this days, aft each lucifer I've played successful Paris, I ever admit and thanked assemblage for enactment and being determination for the players. But yesterday I was booed for conscionable being respectful connected my opponent's presumption not to shingle hands.

"Me and Elina showed respect to each different aft a pugnacious lucifer but leaving the tribunal similar that was the worse portion of yesterday."

She added: "Be better, emotion each other. Don't dispersed hate. Try to marque this satellite better. I volition emotion Roland Garros nary substance what, ever and forever. See you adjacent year."

On time 1 of this year's French Open, Ukraine's Marta Kostyuk was booed disconnected court erstwhile she avoided shaking hands with Belarusian Aryna Sabalenka.

Belarus is an state of Russia and allowed troops to usage its territory to motorboat past year's penetration of Ukraine.