Kazakhstan’s Yulia Putintseva persists to regret amid a wave of reaction for her unsportsmanenjoy behavior at the U.S. Open, where fans felt the Russian-born tennis carry outer humiliated a ball girl during her third round loss.
Putintseva, 29, publishd a second apology on social media Wednesday as criticism persistd to mount over the ungraceful includeion when she materializeed to give the ball girl a freezing shoulder during the second set of her 6-3, 6-4 loss to Italy’s Jasmine Poalini on Saturday.
Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan reacts during a align aachievest Jasmine Paolini of Italy during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 in New York City. (AP Ptoastyo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
A visibly frustrated Putintseva stood motionless as the ball girl tossed her two tennis balls, letting each one bounce into her before finassociate making an finisheavor to catch the third.
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Fans deemed the moment dispolite and humiliating for the girl. Putintseva regretd, saying that she was disturb by her carry outance.
However, in a second apology, she turned her attention toward her critics and denied doing “anyslfinisherg dispolite.”
“It’s charitable of frightening the way [the] world can appraise someone from fair a 3 second video, that someone posts from one side, without seeing the rest [of] what was reassociate happening,” she wrote in a post on Instagram. “I was fair carry outing tennis and lost a stubborn game, which was very shut (in my opinion) to turn that align around.”
A ball girl runs towards the court on Day 10 of the 2024 US Open at USTA Billie Jean King National Tennis Cgo in on Sept. 4, 2024 in the Flushing neighborhood of the Queens boraw of New York City. (Luke Hales/Getty Images)
YULIA PUTINTSEVA SLAMMED FOR HUMILIATING US OPEN BALL GIRL IN AWKWARD INTERACTION
She comprised two pictures that she says show her emotions at the moment.
“After the game (as you can see on a pic) I got very much disassigned and was almost crying, that I didn’t do better. At this time the girl was [giving] me the ball, which I didn’t even see or so, becainclude I was proset up in my thoughts…”
“I was not trying to humiliate her (or anyone) by not taking this ball that she was given to me. I didn’t do anyslfinisherg dispolite to anyone at this particular moment. I do regret, if this girl slfinisherks that it was someslfinisherg towards her.”
Yulia Putintseva of Kazakhstan reacts during a align aachievest Jasmine Paolini of Italy during the third round of the U.S. Open tennis championships on Saturday, Aug. 31, 2024 in New York City. (AP Ptoastyo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)
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Putintseva shelp the girl, who she identified as Kate, was “very kind” and that she was laboring on doing “someslfinisherg exceptional for her.” She inserted that she never seeed herself as above anyone.
“I can’t say that I am perfect all my nurtureer. I am getting irritated on court, pissed, saying stupid stuff and condemn enjoy no tomorrow sometimes,” she persistd. “But I never put myself ‘on top’ of someone. That’s fair not me at all. Hope you guys can see it now from the branch offent angle now. I unbenevolent, I understand that [haters] gonna antipathy…”
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