The Russian tennis player Andrei Rublev starred this Friday in a scandal during the stay disqualified this Friday of the ATP 500 in Dubai “for unsportsmanlike conduct.” It happened after the world number 5 exploded at one of the linesmen during the match he was playing against Kazakhstan’s Aleksander Bublik for a place in the tournament final.
When the twelfth game of the third set was being played, Rublev, champion in 2022 and finalist last year, angrily walked towards the sector where the line judge was and shouted in his face.
Faced with this uncontrolled reaction, the chair umpire, Miriam Bley, decided to send him off and consider that Bublik had won the match, when the score was 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5) and 6-5 in favor of Kazakh. . .
For this attitude Rublev was DISQUALIFIED #Dubai. ???????? pic.twitter.com/o2wNeefRFh
— ESPN Tennis (@ESPNtenis) March 1, 2024
Rublev, who with this situation does not get points or prizes in this tournament, will leave the top 5 of the ATP ranking. He was about to serve to match the final chapter in six games when his chain came off.
The Russian tennis player, winner this year in Hong Kong and with fifteen titles and nine finals in his entire history, would have told him “mentally retarded” to the linesman after losing a point.
Bublik will thus play his first final of the season against the winner of the clash between the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the French Ugo Humbert.
Source: Clarin
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