The tennis player Marc Polmans He apologized to chair umpire Ben Anderson for the ball he accidentally hit in the face after showing his frustration over a volley that hit the net, 'it wasn't intentional.'
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"Ben has accepted my apology for that action. He knows that it was not intentional and that I hit the ball out of the court out of frustration in the heat of the action," the tennis player explained on social network X (formerly known as Twitter).
Marc Polmans, on 7-6 6-6 (6-6), has been disqualified from the Shanghai Masters Q2 match for accidentally hitting the chair umpire after missing match point. -
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He tennis player He was disqualified from the qualifying phase of the Shanghai Masters 1000 for this action. The 26-year-old player, number 140 in the ATP, had a match point against the Italian Stefano Napolitano and, in case of victory, it would be the first time he participated in the main draw of a Masters 1000 (category tournaments immediately below the Grand Slam).
But after missing a shot and suffering from frustration, he hit the ball with a racket that hit chair umpire Ben Anderson in the face.
"It was a high-pressure situation and I should have reacted better," added Polmans, who in addition to losing the points and money obtained in Shanghai, could receive an additional penalty by the ATP.
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