Russian Daria Kasatkina said she left the French Open with a «bitter» taste in her mouth after being booed off by the crowd following her fourth-round defeat Sunday against Ukraine's Elina Svitolina.
Svitolina had said she would not shake hands with Russian or Belarusian players at Roland Garros because of Russia's invasion of her country.
After her 6-4, 7-6 loss, the ninth-seeded Kasatkina gave Svitolina a thumbs-up, and Svitolina was also seen putting her thumb up.
It was unclear whether the gesture was addressed to Kasatkina, who was booed by the crowd. «Leaving Paris with a very bitter feeling,» Kasatkina wrote on Twitter. «All this days, after every match I've played in Paris I always appreciate and thanked crowd for support and being there for the players.