Cameron Norrie has apologised after he threw his racquet and by accident struck a spectator all over his straight-set loss to Facundo Diaz Acosta on the Auckland Vintage.
British quantity two Norrie gained a caution however have shyed away from disqualification for the incident, which took place when he was once 6-2 5-3 down.
After the previous global quantity 8 netted to present Argentina’s Diaz Acosta fit level, a pissed off Norrie tossed his racquet in the back of him and into the group.
The chair umpire checked the lady had now not been injured prior to issuing Norrie with a caution for unsportsmanlike behavior.
“I used to be now not that means to do this and it’s totally now not me to do one thing like that,” stated Norrie, who grew up in Auckland.
“I apologised in no time and I wish to apologise on the whole. I am not pleased with how I behaved.”
Diaz Acosta went directly to protected a 6-2 6-3 victory simply 3 issues later.
“[The spectator] was once guffawing and I simply stated ‘so sorry, I did not imply to do this’. And he or she stated ‘yeah, I am totally OK’. That was once now not a large deal,” stated Norrie.
“However as we noticed with every other gamers, you’ll be able to simply be defaulted if it catches them within the fallacious spot or they are now not having a look or one thing.”
Novak Djokovic was once disqualified from the fourth spherical of the 2020 US Open after he by accident hit a ball at a line pass judgement on.
Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was once defaulted for hitting the umpire with a ball all over a 2017 Davis Cup tie towards Nice Britain, whilst in 2012 David Nalbandian was once disqualified at Queen’s after injuring a line pass judgement on through kicking an promoting board into his shin.
