tennis star Yulia putina has apologized for her behavior toward a ball girl at the US Open on Saturday that went viral a scene in video uploaded to social media the 29-year-old was booed after appearing motionless when the ball girl threw her new balls allowing two of them to bounce off her body before finally catching the third the puzzling sight seemed to confuse the ball girl as well who kept her hands in the air before running to the sidelines meanwhile Julia went on to lose the match [Applause] many on social media appeared outraged by the tennis player attitude including former Tennis Pros but others also suggested that she may have been speaking to someone in the stands still shortly after the encounter Julia took to Instagram to clarify her behavior I want to apologize to the ball girl for the way I was when she was giving me balls the athlete began adding honestly speaking it was not about her I was really pissed at myself by not winning the game from the breakpoint and then got empty with my emotions and deep in my thoughts that I was not even focusing on what's going on and who gives me the ball all the ball kids was doing amazing as always at the open the 2024 US Open is currently taking place in New York through Sunday September 8th oh [Music]