Australian Open Player’s Outburst Makes Ball Girl Cower In Fear

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Pavel Kotov should be extra cautious when he vents.

The Russian participant smashed a ball towards a again fence out of frustration on the Australian Open Sunday, making a close-by ball woman take cowl for worry that the projectile was coming at her.

The ball missed the attendant by a good quantity, and she or he shortly collected herself and resumed her place throughout Kotov’s five-set victory over Arthur Rinderknech. But some followers who considered a clip of the second, as shared by Nine’s Wide World of Sports, weren’t so forgiving.

They known as for Moscow native Kotov ― 6-foot-3, almost 200 kilos and ranked sixty fifth on this planet ― to be disqualified from the Grand Slam event.

Kotov would have been ejected had he truly hit the staffer, Tennis365.com famous.

A then top-seeded Novak Djokovic was disqualified from the 2020 U.S. Open after he by chance hit a tennis ball into the throat of a traces decide in a match of disgust.

Kotov will face Flavio Cobolli of Italy within the second spherical.

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