PARIS—The famously fickle Paris crowd made themselves heard on the opening day of the French Open, booing when Ukraine’s Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands after her first-round defeat by Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus on Sunday.
Stefanos Tsitsipas, the runner-up in Paris in 2021, was later dragged into a dogfight by Czech Jiri Vesely before he advanced in four sets and seeds Karen Khachanov and Hubert Hurkacz also battled their way into the second round.
Kostyuk had warned she would not shake hands with Russian and Belarusian players due to Moscow’s invasion of its neighbor Ukraine and she kept her word on a sun-kissed court Philippe Chatrier after losing 6–3, 6–2 to world number two Sabalenka….