The American framed the incident around the importance of fair play after receiving a hindrance call because the umpire didn’t see she had accidentally hit her opponent at net.

The 29-year-old Moscow native recently played Roland Garros, but as a Russian.

Elsewhere, Kaja Juvan and Natela Dzalamidze claimed the Winners Open trophy at the WTA clay-court event in Cluj-Napoca, Romania.