{"id":11919,"date":"2025-06-23T02:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/sakkari-and-putintseva-tension-on-the-court-after-the-bad-homburg-match\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T02:31:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T06:31:01","slug":"sakkari-and-putintseva-tension-on-the-court-after-the-bad-homburg-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/tennis\/sakkari-and-putintseva-tension-on-the-court-after-the-bad-homburg-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakkari and Putintseva: Tension on the court after the Bad Homburg match"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Court Tension: Sakkari and Putintseva Face Off in Bad Homburg<\/h2>\n\n\nA tense encounter took place in Bad Homburg on Sunday, when Greek Maria Sakkari and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva had an altercation on the center court after their first-round match.\n\nSakkari secured the victory with a score of 7-5, 7-6 (6) in this Wimbledon warm-up event, but the celebration was marred by a tense moment at the net.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;When you shake someone&#8217;s hand, look them in the eye,&#8221; Sakkari was heard saying through the court microphone.<\/p>\n\n<cite>Maria Sakkari<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nPutintseva responded with an exaggerated bow, to which Sakkari replied: &#8220;Just be a human being.&#8221;\n\nThe confrontation continued as Putintseva headed to the locker room.\n\nSakkari, visibly annoyed, told an interviewer on the court that there was no good relationship between the two players.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to invite me to dinner for the rest of our lives, but I don&#8217;t care,&#8221; Sakkari declared. &#8220;I have very good friends and I will have dinner with them. I&#8217;ll leave it here, and I&#8217;ll just say that I respect her as a player, but that&#8217;s all.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n<cite>Maria Sakkari<\/cite>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\nIn the next round, Sakkari will face Ekaterina Alexandrova or Belinda Bencic.\n\nWimbledon will start on June 30.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Court Tension: Sakkari and Putintseva Face Off in Bad Homburg A tense encounter took place in Bad Homburg on Sunday, when Greek Maria Sakkari and Kazakh Yulia Putintseva had an altercation on the center court after their first-round match. Sakkari secured the victory with a score of 7-5, 7-6 (6) in this Wimbledon warm-up event, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[4556,4557,167,4558],"class_list":{"0":"post-11919","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-bad-homburg","9":"tag-maria-sakkari","10":"tag-tennis","11":"tag-yulia-putintseva"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}