Cameron Norrie has apologised after he threw his racquet and by chance struck a spectator throughout his straight-set loss to Facundo Diaz Acosta on the Auckland Traditional.
British quantity two Norrie acquired a warning however prevented disqualification for the incident, which occurred when he was 6-2 5-3 down.
After the previous world quantity eight netted to provide Argentina’s Diaz Acosta match level, a pissed off Norrie tossed his racquet behind him and into the group.
The chair umpire checked the lady had not been injured earlier than issuing Norrie with a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct.
“I used to be not that means to do this and it’s fully not me to do one thing like that,” mentioned Norrie, who grew up in Auckland.
“I apologised in a short time and I wish to apologise normally. I am not proud of how I behaved.”
Diaz Acosta went on to safe a 6-2 6-3 victory simply three factors later.
“[The spectator] was laughing and I simply mentioned ‘so sorry, I did not imply to do this’. And he or she mentioned ‘yeah, I am fully OK’. That was not an enormous deal,” mentioned Norrie.
“However as we noticed with another gamers, you’ll be able to simply be defaulted if it catches them within the fallacious spot or they are not wanting or one thing.”
Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the fourth spherical of the 2020 US Open after he by chance hit a ball at a line choose.
Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was defaulted for hitting the umpire with a ball throughout a 2017 Davis Cup tie in opposition to Nice Britain, whereas in 2012 David Nalbandian was disqualified at Queen’s after injuring a line choose by kicking an promoting board into his shin.