Cameron Norrie lost in the early hours of Tuesday against the Argentine Facundo Díaz Acosta for a double 6-3. Although the match was completed normally, there was a moment of uncertainty as the British tennis player threw his racket into the air after losing a point in the ninth game of play and hit a spectator behind him. He was on the verge of being disqualified by the match umpire.
The tennis players began their 2025 season with the preparatory tournaments that are held in the run-up to the first Grand Slam of the year, the Australian Open. There Facundo Díaz Acosta faced Cameron Norrie in the Round of 32 (first round of the tournament) of the ASB Classic, better known as the Auckland ATP 250. When they were 5-3 in favor of the Argentine, Norrie failed to receive the serve and opened his arms showing his displeasure with the blow, but (as a result of perspiration?) his racket was thrown towards the first row of the stands at his feet. back and lightly hit a spectator who was sitting.
“It was completely accidental and I apologized to her immediately”Norrie said in a press conference at the end of the meeting. “That wasn’t a big problem. But as we saw with some other players, you can easily be disqualified if you hit them in the wrong place or they’re not looking or something. I had no intention of doing that and it’s definitely not like me to do something like that. I apologized very quickly and I want to apologize in general. “I am not happy with my behavior,” added the 29-year-old Briton. In this way, the Auckland finalist in 2023 was eliminated prematurely in New Zealand at the hands of the young Argentine.
Previously, cases such as that of Novak Djokovic at the US Open 2020 where he threw a ball and, unfortunately for the Serbian, it hit the neck of one of the judges on the court and was disqualified. Denis Shapovalov was another of the protagonists of a similar incident, when in the 2017 Davis Cup he lost a game and furiously threw a ball into the sky that hit the eye of the umpire present and was also disqualified. In this way, the ITF and the ATP demonstrated the strict rules that govern professional tennis based on the care of the spectators present.
For his part, Facundo Díaz Acosta seemed comfortable in the match and was able to deploy in the Court Central his best tennis to advance to the next round where his compatriot Sebastián Baez, third seed in the competition, awaits him. The incident revived the debate about the behavior of some players and the need to have greater emotional control in pressure situations.
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