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Two episodes at this year’s U.S. Open have shown that not every postmatch handshake in tennis goes well. There’s been a lot of talk about the unwritten rules of tennis during the Grand Slam tournament in New York that ends next weekend and much of the conversation stems from to-dos up at the net. There was the lengthy back-and-forth between Taylor Townsend and Jelena Ostapenko and a shorter contentious exchange between Stefanos Tsitsipas and Daniel Altmaier. No one thinks handshakes should leave the sport, but some wonder if such conversations are better left to the locker room.