Day one of the French Open quickly turned into a day of shame for Roland Garros. Heaven forbid that Wimbledon’s Centre Court this summer should react in the same way as many spectators did on Court Philippe Chatrier, after second seed Aryna Sabalenka of Belarus had beaten Marta Kostyuk.At the end of a 6-3, 6-2 loss the Ukrainian, as is now established custom, declined to shake hands with a player from one of the aggressor nations, and found herself booed off court.Kostyuk had awoken at 5am to learn that her home city, Kyiv — where her father and grandfather still live — had come under unprecedented overnight attack from 54 drones.
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