Former Top 20 player Shahar Peer refuses to shake the hand of her opponent, 18-year-old Deniz Khazaniuk, after beating her 6-0, 6-1 in the semifinals of the Israel Open. “You’re an embarrassment to the State of Israel,” Peer was reported to have said by the Israeli media. Earlier this year, in an interview with the Maariv newspaper, Khazaniuk criticized Peer and the rest of Israeli Fed Cup team. “She’s one big fake,” said Khazaniuk, who also said that during Fed Cup, Peer and Israeli player Julia Glushko “only belittled me and criticized me all the time.