Zverev was fined more than $70,000! It's the referees who suffer! Talk about the hot and famous scenes in the tennis world
Alexander Zverev, the world's No. 3 German star, smashed the referee's chair with a racket at the Mexico Open a few days ago, and the ATP also announced the punishment result, he will lose points and swallow more than $70,000 (about 442,000 yuan) in fines.
Zverev Jr. originally came to Mexico to seek to defend his title in singles, but he was unfavorable to The Brazilian Marcelo Melo in the first doubles match, and because he lost the game within the final point, he constantly yelled and shouted on the field, and was given a violation by referee Alessandro Germani. After the game, when the players on both sides greeted each other and walked to the rest area to pass referee Alessandro Germani, Zverev Jr. took the racket and hit the referee's chair 3 times, sat in the rest area for a while, and then got up and yelled at the referee: "Ruined this damn game!" Even as the referee prepares to step out of the referee's chair, Zverev Jr. hit the chair again, and the camera also shows Alessandro Germani shrinking his feet to avoid the "attack".
Zverev's behavior also triggered strong condemnation from the outside world, and he issued a statement of apology and regret in the community after the game. In addition to being disqualified from singles competitions by the General Assembly, the ATP also announced the punishment today, saying that it will be punished with verbal insults and violations of the two rules of sportsmanship, each fined $20,000, which is also the upper limit of the fine for these two violations.
In addition, Zverev Jr. determined that he could not receive a total of $31,570 in singles and doubles bonuses, and the points would not be included in the calculation, which was probably not the final punishment, and the ATP said that it would conduct further review of the case.
There are still many similar hot scenes in the professional tennis world, and many referees have "suffered" because of this. In the past, there have been many players in the tennis world who have lost control of their emotions on the field, in the 2017 Davis Cup men's tennis team match, Canada's Shapovalov was dissatisfied with the mistake, hit the ball in his hand hard, accidentally hit the referee's eye, causing the bone fracture knife under the left eye, Shapovalov was also sentenced to disqualify; in the 2019 Queen's Lawn Tennis Tournament, Argentine player David Nalbandian was furious in the game, kicked the wooden board under the line trial, causing the left leg of the line trial to be injured and bleeding.
In addition, the top star "crazy" scene is also emerging, 2020 US Open, Serbian star Djokovic is not satisfied with his own serve is broken, XiaoDe did not look at the ball to vent his emotions, this time unfortunate is a female line judge, the throat was mistakenly hit by Xiao De's ball, the pain on the spot fell to the ground, once a little difficult to breathe, fortunately there is no big problem, of course, Xiao De was also disqualified from the game.
American celebrity, women's singles former world ball queen Serena Williams, also has several times on the field to protest the verdict, the most impressive is the 2018 US Open women's singles final, she complained about the referee's law enforcement, the audience also booed, and even the entire award ceremony atmosphere was super embarrassing, so that the japanese female champion Osaka Naomi sad to tears.
