AUCKLAND, New Zealand — 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 going through match level towards Facundo Diaz Acosta of Argentina when he frivolously tossed his racquet into the air. The racquet struck a girl in a court-side field who was unharmed.
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 nevertheless it’s nonetheless not superb to be doing that and I’ve by no means achieved one thing like that,” Norrie mentioned. (The spectator) “was laughing and I simply mentioned ‘so sorry, I did not imply to do this.’ And he or she mentioned ‘yeah, I am utterly OK.’
“That was not an enormous deal. However as we noticed with another gamers, you may simply be defaulted if it catches them within the fallacious spot or they are not wanting or one thing.
“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 need to apologize generally. I am not proud of how I behaved.”
Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the 2020 US Open after unintentionally hitting a line choose with a ball and on the 2023 French Open Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi have been defaulted from the ladies’s doubles after a ball hit by Kato struck a ball lady.
Additionally 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.