And Australian tennis player missed a match point with a shot into the net and his reaction led to a violent attack on the match umpire. Of course, the athlete was instantly disqualified and lost the chance to take a big step in his career in a important tournament being number 140 in the ATP ranking. Although he was only one point away from taking the victory against the Italian Stefano Napolitano, Marc Polmans starred in an extremely unusual event that deprived him of this achievement.
He born in South Africa but naturalized Australian won the first set 7-6 after winning 7-3 in the tie-break and was on track to win the second set in the same way. when i won 6-5 and was close to winning to get into the main draw of the Shanghai 1000 Masters, he encountered a situation that took him away from said goal. Of course, the video of the moment did not take long to go viral on the networks the anger shown by the tennis player.
Polmans missed a volley against the net and took the rebound of the ball with such violence that it impacted in the referee’s face. This led to his subsequent disqualification from the party and The Australian was left out of the classification to the table of the aforementioned contest. Then, Napolitano -what He lost the first set and was on the verge of defeat– achieved in an unexpected way what his rival couldn’t.
It should be noted that it is not yet known which will be the sanction that the ATP will apply against the oceanic tennis player after the reaction in the middle of the playing field. Of course, it is not the first time that an event of this nature occurs in a tennis match, but it is expected that the penalty is very strong for number 140 of the world that already He played several Grand Slams unsuccessfully.
Rafa Nadal’s unexpected confession about Djokovic
“Rafa” Nadal’s 2023 was not as expected. After a relapse of his iliac psoa injury, the top Roland Garros winner (14) has not competed on the ATP circuit since last January 18 and his return to the courts is still unknown. Since inactivity, the Serbian won three Grand Slams that catapulted him to be the player with the most Grand Slams in history, with 24, and The Manacorí got into the controversy over who is the best of all time.
Days after “Nole” was consecrated in the US OPen after beating Daniil Medvedev, the left-hander had made controversial statements in dialogue with Movistar+: “I don’t feel when I see Novak win. Obviously I would have liked to be the tennis player with the most majors in history, but it is not an obsession. For him (for Novak Djokovic), it would have been a bigger frustration not to get it. Maybe that’s why he achieved it himself. “He has had the capacity to love, he has taken his ambition to the maximum,” he had stated.
The 37-year-old tennis player, who could return to activity in 2024, surprised his fans with a blunt opinion: “I think that with respect to titles, Djokovic is the best in history and there is nothing to discuss about that. Then, as always, everyone can combine the story as they wish, saying that I have suffered many injuries. Bad luck for me or bad luck that I had my body this way.”
2023-10-03 23:49:57
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