By Chris Oddo | @TheFanChild | Sunday June 22, 2025
Maria Sakkari has taken a web page from the Andy Murray playbook and referred to as out one other participant.
The 86th-ranked Greek wild card acquired right into a spat with Yulia Putintseva after notching a 7-5, 7-6 win over her on Sunday in Unhealthy Homburg. On-court microphones picked up Sakkari telling Putintseva “No person likes you” after the primary match of the 2025 Unhealthy Homburg Open was accomplished.
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The pair exchanged greater than these phrases, as Sakkari approached Putintseva to make clear what was being mentioned.
“Whenever you shake fingers with somebody, look them within the eyes,” Sakkari mentioned.
She continued her assault of the World No.27 throughout her post-match interview saying: “I do not assume she’s going to ask me for dinner for the remainder of our lives, however I do not care, to be sincere. I’ve superb associates and I am going to go to dinner with them. Let me go away it right here, and say that I’ve respect for her as a participant, however that is it.”
It reminds us of the time that Murray advised Lukas Rosol that everyone hated him:
We’re truly unsure what’s meaner: giving somebody a nasty handshake or telling somebody that no person likes them?
Sakkari will face both Belinda Bencic or Ekaterina Alexandrova within the second spherical at Unhealthy Homburg.
