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Alexander Zverev adds his name to a list of tennis players who did not know how to control their anger due to the defeat or the loss of a point and ended up paying the anger with the racket and, what is more serious, with the chair umpire.
The German is not the only one, because the adrenaline during a tennis match is very high and everything happens very fast. At the US Open 2020, Novak Djokovic He could not control himself either and ended with a ball at the wrong time that ended up in the throat of a line judge. The Serbian was expelled from the competition. Although before that moment, and during the same match against Pablo Carreño, he had already shown his fury by breaking the racket against the net.
Another tennis player who ended up expelled for an act of rage, and in the middle of the final of the 2012 Queens tournament, was david nalbandian. The Argentine kicked one of the advertisements at the back of the track, but the kick did not stop there and ended up in the leg of a line judge, who ended up bleeding.
He didn’t throw any rackets, but Serena Williams she did call the referee a “thief” at the 2018 US Open final. Frustration at missing out on the 24th Grand Slam of her career caused the American to confront the chair umpire and turn off even the happiest day of Naomi Osaka, who won his first big among boos from the public.
In 2017, a very young Denis Shapovalov he understood that an uncontrolled ball could not only lose your match but that of your Davis Cup team. He furiously hit a ball after losing his serve and it hit the eye of the chair umpire.
At the 1992 US Open, Ivan Lendl also showed character when he faced the chair umpire for a decision. The Czech took the Grand Slam, against Boris Becker, but also whistles from the stands.
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John McEnroe He also had many tense moments on the court, like this one in which he threw his racket twice and faced the chair umpire for a ball that he saw outside.
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