LONDON (Reuters) -The balls kept on listening to Iga Swiatek on Wednesday as the Polish eighth seed walloped Liudmila Samsonova 6-2 7-5 to reach the Wimbledon semi-finals for the first time.

Tennis star Yulia Putintseva did just that during her third-round match at the U.S. Open on Saturday and has been facing the backlash for it – first from the crowd, and now on social media.

Tennis star ripped for treatment of U.S. Open ball girl says controversy has gotten ‘kind of scary’ 'I was not trying to humiliate her (or anyone) by not taking this ball that she was given to me' ...