Who will be the WTA’s year-end world number one? Aryna Sabalenka and Iga Swiatek‘s battle for glory is poised to go down to the very last minute. While the rivalry is quite evident on the tennis court, both of them have also tangled themselves in a controversy with a recent act of Sabalenka taking center stage in the tennis world.

As the year-end WTA Finals is right around the corner, the 2023 Australian Open champion made a clear snub against the 22-year-old Pole, sparking a controversy just before the tournament. Let’s take a look at the attention-grabbing move of the Belarusian tennis star that sparked more rumors inside the WTA community.

Aryna Sabalenka pulls a strange act against Iga Swiatek 

The WTA finals are all said to kick off on October 29 in Cancun. Just before that tournament, all eight of the participants, including Sabalenka, Swiatek, Coco Gauff, Jessica Pegula, Elena Rybakina, Ons Jabeur, Marketa Vondrousova, and Maria Sakkari, took part in an amazing photoshoot.

A selfie from the photoshoot was posted on Instagram by the world’s number-one-ranked tennis player. While everyone was quite visible in that picture, including her 22-year-old rival, what grabbed everyone’s attention was how Sabalenka tagged everyone but strangely left Swiatek off the tagging list.

In that picture, while everyone was dressed in white, the four-time Grand Slam champion stood out of the crowd in a beautiful red dress.

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