“I lost my mind”: Andrey Rublev had a rage midway through the game and the ball nearly hit an assistant.

If tennis has been characterized in recent times, it is by the increasingly frequent acts of anger committed by tennis players: this Tuesday it was the turn of Russian Andrey Rublev, who admitted that “he lost his mind “after about to give the ball to one of the caretakers of the Roland Garros courts.

After losing the first set in the ‘tie break’ against South Korean Soonwoo Kwonthe World No. 7 was hit by the ball very hard in his seat so the ball bounced and almost hit the head of one of the keepers who raking dirt between the two sets at Roland Garros, who had great reflexes to evade impact.

“At that moment I lost consciousness and of course I regret what I did. It is not acceptable to hit the ball the way I did,” explained the Russian, who ended up winning the match 6-7 (5/7), 6 -3, 6-2 and 6-4.

“It’s better if the racket hits you on the seat, because the ball will hit someone,” he added.

“It’s not professional on my part and I hope I don’t repeat it,” he concluded.

This season, Australian Nick Kyrgios accidentally hit a boy on the pitch stand in a doubles match at the Australian Open and ‘fixed’ it by giving the boy his racket.

German Alexander Zverev (N.3), who after losing in the doubles match in Acapulco, several times hit the match judge’s seat with his racket, where he was not included in the Mexican tournament.

In addition to the loss of points earned in Acapulco, the ATP applied to the German an additional $ 25,000 fine and a two-month ban, but these measures were suspended as long as the German did not again violate the policies for one year.

Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the US Open in 2020 after he angrily hit the ball hard and it hit a line judge.

After what happened to Zverev, Spaniard Rafael Nadal positioned himself in favor of more severe punishment for violent behavior.

“If we can’t control this kind of attitude in the field, and other things have happened in recent months (…) and to create a rule or a way to more severely punish this kind of attitude, then we players feel stronger and stronger (… 🙂 And I think, in sport we need to be a positive example especially to children ”, argued the Spaniard.

Source: AFP