Get a grip! Pro schools opponent on art of proper handshake
Handshakes have long been part of tennis etiquette, with the two opponents meeting each other halfway in a gesture of good sportsmanship to signify the end of a match.
To not establish firm eye contact with an opponent or resist shaking hands at all is considered bad form, and could get you booed off the court (see: Tomas Berdych).
Poland's Elina Svitolina was not booed off the court, but she was a little limp and lifeless in her meeting with Barbora Zahlavova Strycova of the Czech Republic.
But while 28-year-old Strycova may have lost her Toray Pan Pacific Open match, she wasn't about to lose her dignity. Strycova rejected Svitolina's dead fish and schooled the 20-year-old in the fine art of handshaking.
Check out the delightful GIF below:
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