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Marta Kostyuk is fig 38 successful the women's rankingsUkraine's Marta Kostyuk refused to shingle hands with Anastasia Potapova aft she was beaten by the Russian astatine the Miami Open.
Their 2 countries are astatine warfare aft Russia invaded Ukraine past year.
Potapova, who was precocious warned aft wearing a Spartak Moscow shot shirt astatine a match, won the second-round brushwood 6-1 6-3.
Kostyuk has antecedently refused to shingle hands with Russia's Varvara Gracheva and Belarusian Victoria Azarenka.
Belarus has been a cardinal state of Russia successful the warfare against Ukraine.
After losing to satellite fig 26 Potapova, Kostyuk said determination had been nary effect from the WTA astir a petition from Ukrainian players to meet.
"Yes, we wanted to person the gathering with the committee and we didn't get one. No reply, nothing, conscionable silence," she said.
WTA main enforcement Steve Simon recently told BBC Sport his organisation was doing arsenic overmuch arsenic it was capable to for players from Ukraine.
"I mean, erstwhile we're successful the gathering we tin speech astir it," said 38th-ranked Kostyuk. "Before the meeting, I don't deliberation it's a bully thought to speech astir what we privation to speech astir there."
Speaking astir Potapova's informing for wearing a Spartak shot shirt, she said: "There are a batch of things that I don't hold with that the WTA is doing. This is not going to alteration anything.
"I'll conscionable get much hatred online. Whatever I say, I volition get a batch of hate. I don't know.
"Warning, whatever. You springiness her a warning... You tin suspend someone, I don't know. I can't remark connected that really, it's conscionable funny."
Potapova volition adjacent play American Coco Gauff, who bushed Canada's Rebecca Marino 6-4 6-3.
Jessica Pegula secured a 6-3 6-1 triumph implicit Canadian qualifier Katherine Sebov and volition play chap American Danielle Collins who bushed Viktoriya Tomova 7-6 (7-3) 6-2.
Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, of Kazakhstan, besides made it done to the 3rd circular aft a 7-5 4-6 6-3 triumph against Anna Kalinskaya.
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