Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi were disqualified of the tournament women’s doubles Roland Garros this Sunday, after Kato accidentally hit a ball catcher with a reverse.
The incident occurred when the Japanese and Indonesian players they led the second set 3-1after losing the first against their rival couple, made up of the Czech Marie Bouzkova and the Spanish Sara Sorribes.
From the net, Kato gently tossed a ball in the direction of the ball boyon the opposite side of court 14, to try to speed up the match, but ended up hitting her on the back of the head.
The 28-year-old tennis player immediately apologized to the young woman, who was crying and shaking.
Kato received a warning
In the first moment, Kato received a warning, but a supervisor ultimately disqualified the pair in the third round.after Bouzkova and Sorribes protested to the chair umpire.
“The warning was because the chair umpire did not see that she was crying and that she was in pain”Bouzkova said.
“We told the supervisor that he should take a closer look, because we saw that the young woman was crying and the ball went straight towards her. It’s not like it bounced or was a slow ball,” he added.
Saturday, Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva was lucky not to be disqualified after petulantly sending a ball towards the crowd on the court Suzanne Lenglenduring her match against American Coco Gauff.
“Immediately afterwards I thought that was very stupid of me, because it was not necessary to do that”admitted Andreeva, who ended up losing the duel.
In it At the 2020 US Open, Novak Djokovic was disqualified after clearing a ball out of frustration, which hit a linesman.
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