Wimbledon star Victoria Azarenka hits supporter on the pinnacle

Wimbledon star Victoria Azarenka apologised after inadvertently hitting a supporter on the pinnacle with a ball whereas he was watching a match on a special courtroom. The 33-year-old reached back-to-back semi-finals on the All England Club in 2011 and 2012 and has additionally gained the Australian Open on two events.

Azarenka was a rank outsider to win this 12 months’s version of Wimbledon earlier than the match obtained underway on Monday. But the Belarusian has progressed to the fourth spherical after getting the higher of Russian opponent Daria Kasatkina within the third spherical on Friday.

Azarenka gained the match 6-2, 6-4 after dominating from begin to end. But the largest speaking level of the showdown got here when the two-time Grand Slam champion was serving at deuce with the scores locked at 1-1 within the second set.

The ball sat up on Azarenka’s aspect of the courtroom after Kasatkina had managed to maintain the rally going. And the veteran smashed a half volley into the bottom to win the purpose. But her shot was so ferocious that the ball bounced excessive into the sky and flew over the barrier separating two courts. It then dropped down and smashed a fan on the again of the pinnacle.

The supporter was startled and rotated in an try to work out the place the ball had come from. After the incident, the BBC commentator mentioned: “There’s a header there, you might get to see it. There it is – almost took his shades off. And he’s looking around there – ‘who did that?’”

The Wimbledon media workforce clearly noticed the humorous aspect and posted a video of the incident to their Instagram web page with the caption: “The chances of getting hit in the head at #Wimbledon are low… but never zero.” And Azarenka shared the submit on her personal Instagram web page as she wrote: “Sorry about that mate.”

Azarenka is now set to tackle Elina Svitolina on Sunday for a spot within the Wimbledon quarter-finals. And Azarenka has additionally just lately revealed that she has banned her six-year-old son from attending matches in south west London.

“So now my son wants to come to my matches,” she mentioned. “It’s still a bit of a hard feeling for me, because I get a bit distracted. I have tried that in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, and it was very awesome moment to share. But at the same time it kind of takes me a bit, you know, into my mum mode too much rather than being a tennis player.”