Marta Kostyuk refused to shake hands with his opponent after his first-round loss 6-3, 6-2. At the US Open against another Belarusian former world No.
1 Victoria Azarenka, the world 39th had refused to greet her opponent at the end of their match, simply touching her racket. Sabalenka repeated at a press conference that if she could "end the war, [she] would," while affirming that "sport should not be politicized"