Largest French Open fines after star’s £8k wrap for hitting little one with racket

This 12 months’s French Open hasn’t been with out some drama. The most notable subject got here when Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi have been disqualified after Kato despatched a ball again to the opposite finish of the court docket and it unintentionally hit a ball woman.

The umpire solely gave her a warning however opponent Marie Bouzkova and Sara Sorribes Tormo known as on them to be defaulted as a result of the ball woman was in tears. The supervisor took to the court docket and the sixteenth seeds have been disqualified.

Andreeva narrowly averted the identical destiny in her third-round loss to Coco Gauff as she acquired a code violation for firing a ball into the stands, although it didn’t hit anybody. And Yoshihito Nishioka acquired some extent penalty in his personal third-round match when he checked a ball mark by crossing the online – one thing in opposition to the tennis guidelines.

It’s not the primary 12 months that stars have landed themselves in sizzling water at Roland Garros, as Irina-Camelia Begu acquired the most important wonderful of the event final 12 months at £8,059 ($10,000). She threw a racket in frustration throughout a match in opposition to Ekaterina Alexandrova.

But it flew up and hit a baby within the face, leaving the younger boy in tears. The match stopped because the referee got here to debate the matter with Begu, the chair umpire and the kid’s household earlier than the Romanian was slapped with a code violation and, later, the wonderful.

Andrey Rublev was additionally hit with an enormous wonderful 12 months in the past when he threw a drink on the court docket and smacked a ball in frustration. Like compatriot Andreeva this 12 months, the world No 7 was fortunate to not be defaulted because the ball narrowly missed hitting the groundsman close to him. He was billed £6.4k ($8k).