To be a great champion you really need to have a big fire burning inside you. Sometimes this fire is so strong that you struggle to put it off when you lose. This is what was happening even to a young Roger Federer that was struggling to cope with failure; Jelena Ostapenko has a similar issue.
What happened?
Jelena has lost in the Toronto opener to a strong Varvara Lepchenko to give a disgusting handshake at the net. Unfortunately, nowadays you can easily go back and check some other episodes, and apparently, the Latvian is not new to this kind of “performance.”
Back in time, Jelena had a horrible handshake with Garbine Muguruza after losing in Rome and she had another couple of embarrassing episodes with Putintseva, Broady, and Mladenovic.
ostapenko handshake is very unpolite and disrespectful. maybe ostapenko is over confident and deserve to lose.. https://t.co/wM2OXGkKGa
— Jong Min Regar (@JongMin1303) August 8, 2017
#Ostapenko didn’t try to pull that bullshit drive-by hand slap masquerading as a handshake when she lost to #Venus at #Wimbledon.#RogersCup https://t.co/FNIjHfVUxM
— Kimberly A. Woodard (@BeingKimmie) August 7, 2017
This barely qualifies as a handshake. #Muguruza #Ostapenko pic.twitter.com/fcZUkSgnFn
— Ashish Jena (@ashishjena94) May 17, 2017
Ostapenko is such a brat what kind of a handshake is that. Glad she lost!
— OrvilleLloydDouglas (@OrvilleLloyd) August 7, 2017
When you see people hating Penko’s handshake. #ostapenko pic.twitter.com/LJ0z5mj7Gi
— Jess Stein (@jessica4stein) August 8, 2017
Priceless was Ostapenko’s end of game handshake, you can tell she doesn’t like losing, but come on show some grace?
— Camilo Vargas (@CAMILO151974) August 7, 2017
Ostapenko never will be a real champion. Bad handshake. And look in her face. No respect against her opponents.
— Göksel Uzunoglu® (@10Goeki) August 7, 2017
What a terrible handshake by Ostapenko. Go learn how to accept defeat first kid.
— Marcelo Jabali (@mjabali) August 7, 2017
Ostapenko is such a sore loser. If only winning a slam could make one classy. Pathetic handshake at the net.
— Mahima (@DropVolleys) August 7, 2017
Cold handshake looks like this, peeps. #ostapenko pic.twitter.com/QlqbWZ8eyb
— Jess Stein (@jessica4stein) March 11, 2017
What kind of bitchy handshake was that from Ostapenko… 🙄 That girl is serious irritating. #BNPPO17 https://t.co/aH8SGPoz30
— WTAAddict (@WTAAddict) March 11, 2017
This WTA handshake has more than 1M view. #ostapenko #broady https://t.co/uFS3X38JSz
— Jess Stein (@jessica4stein) October 1, 2016
Naomi Broady FUMING at Ostapenko, after the cold handshake. ‘You hit the ball boy with your racquet’ Dead. pic.twitter.com/YL0XWeLbRF
— Jake Davies (@jakedavi5) January 6, 2016
Ostapenko with one of her brat classless handshakes to Lepchenko, as Lepchenko wins one of her patent marathon comeback battles @rogerscup pic.twitter.com/j7tqo8d8Z2
— Andrew Jerell Jones (@sluggahjells) August 7, 2017
For those who like to read too much into handshakes. #ostapenko pic.twitter.com/wxPfReOsnC
— Jess Stein (@jessica4stein) July 5, 2017
I hope I did not pull backwards too hard. #not pic.twitter.com/LaWOAPQ5XP
— Kristina Mladenovic (@KikiMladenovic) July 1, 2015
