British tennis star Cameron Norrie apologized and prevented disqualification when a racquet he tossed within the air struck a spectator on the ATP Tour match in Auckland on Tuesday.
Auckland-born Norrie was dealing with match level in opposition to Facundo Diaz Acosta of Argentina when he frivolously tossed his racquet into the air. The racquet struck a lady in a court-side field who was unharmed.
Video of the incident confirmed a lady in a hat reacting rapidly and deflecting the racquet away as the gang gasped.
Norrie obtained a warning from the chair umpire and went on to lose 6-2, 6-3 within the first spherical of the match. He reached the ultimate in Auckland in 2023.
“I wasn’t which means to do this but it surely’s nonetheless not supreme to be doing that and I’ve by no means accomplished one thing like that,” Norrie stated. (The spectator) “was laughing and I simply stated ‘so sorry, I did not imply to do this.’ And she stated ‘yeah, I’m utterly OK.’
“That was not a giant deal. But as we noticed with another gamers, you’ll be able to simply be defaulted if it catches them within the improper spot or they are not wanting or one thing.
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“I used to be not which means to do this and it’s utterly not me to do one thing like that. I apologized in a short time and I wish to apologize basically. I’m not proud of how I behaved.”
According to ESPN, Norrie was ranked forty ninth on the earth last year and 18th on the earth in 2023.
Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the 2020 U.S. Open after by accident hitting a line choose with a ball and on the 2023 French Open Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi had been defaulted from the ladies’s doubles after a ball hit by Kato struck a ball lady.
Also in 2023, Australian tennis participant Marc Polmans was defaulted from the ultimate spherical of qualifying on the Shanghai Masters after hitting a ball into the face of the chair umpire.
According to the BBC, Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was defaulted for hitting the umpire with a ball throughout a 2017 Davis Cup match in opposition to Great Britain, whereas in 2012 Argentine tennis participant David Nalbandian was disqualified at after injuring a line judge by kicking an promoting board into his shin.
