US Open
Tennis star breaks out in tears during the game-because of her ex-friend
In the middle of the game, Karolína Muchová overs the emotions at the US Open. After the match, she revealed: The sight of her ex-friend in the stands bothered her.
Came in the middle of the first sentence Karolína Muchová suddenly tears. The Czech was already 1: 4 in her second-round match against the Romanian Sorana Cîrstea when she briefly interrupted her game before her her own surcharge. She wiped her face with a towel, apologized briefly with the referee and continued to play with tears in her eyes.
Even before this scene, Muchová had acted agile and mentally absent. After the match, number 13 in the world explained what triggered her emotional outbreak. “It had nothing to do with tennis,” she said at the press conference. During the match, she saw her ex-boyfriend in the stands: “He was sitting right next to my box. He likes to appear in places where he shouldn’t be and where I am. That scared me a bit.”
US Open: Player asks ex-boyfriend to leave the stands
Muchová reported that she asked her former partner to go. “He didn’t want to, but then he went. At that moment it was difficult for me to concentrate on tennis,” said the tennis player.
Despite the distraction, the Czech caught and won her second-round match in three sets. She is doing well, she did not show the incident with the tournament organizers, said Muchová. In the round of 16 of the Grand Slam tournament in New York, she meets Ukrainian Marta Kostjuk.
Stalking incident at Emma Raducanu
The players can submit names of certain people to the associations who they don’t want to have in their games. These are then not allowed to buy tickets or do not receive any accreditations. This regulation was introduced after an incident that Karolína Muchová has witnessed himself – albeit on the other side.
At the tournament in Dubai at the beginning of the year, her opponent Emma Raducanu saw a man in the audience, whom she accused “obsessive behavior”. The British had broken out into tears and even hid behind the referee chair. Since then, the tournament organizers and the professional organization WTA have been more aware of stalking. It is not publicly known how exactly the relationship between Karolína Muchová and her ex-boyfriend is.
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