Melbourne, Jan 23, 2026 (AFP) - Putintseva sings rabbit song to shut out 'disrespectful' fans

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2026-01-23

Yulia Putintseva hit out Friday at "disrespectful" fans during her Australian Open clash with Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez and said she only kept her cool by singing a song about rabbits. The unseeded Kazakh came through the drama 6-3, 6-7 (3/7), 6-3 but had to put up with fans screaming and coughing at crunch moments. At the end of the match in Melbourne she was booed during her entire on-court interview. "Today I think was really a lot of disrespectf......

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