A 13-year-old player completely collapsed after a big blunder by the referee. He was disqualified on the spot.
28.01.2024, 09:2728.01.2024, 09:41
The “Petits As” tournament brings together the champions of tomorrow every year. The opportunity for the public to discover very beautiful gestures and, sometimes, much less pretty ones. Like that of William Repakis. The Swede was unable to control his emotions during the round of 16 which pitted him against Frenchman Rafael Thao-Keuang on Thursday. So what happened? We rewind.
While Repakis won the first set but got off to a bad start in the second (0-3), he played for an important point at 40-40. His return of service is limited, but the game continues. The two boys take no risks by abusing the bomb balls. At one point, however, the French left-hander has difficulty controlling his forehand and sends the ball into the lane.
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Everyone saw it, except…the referee, who announced: “Thao-Keuang advantage”. A huge blunder that the Swede has difficulty understanding. Incredulous, his mouth wide open, his two arms outstretched, he signals to the game director that the ball has landed squarely in the middle of the lane.
“Quite honestly, I pretty much agree with him.”
The commentator of the game agreeing with William Repakis.
In the images, we then see the young Swede walk towards the referee and give him a double middle finger. The sanction falls immediately: disqualification! “It’s a big sanction which will surely serve as a lesson to him, even if he was right on the ball,” commented the Internet user who relayed the sequence on the social network “X”. It’s so hard to manage your emotions in tennis and in sport in general.”
Other tennis fans, however, are less nuanced and believe that William Repakis did very well to react in this way. “Obscene gesture, obscene gesture…. What is obscene is to arbitrate in this way. His reaction is normal», writes one Internet user, while another attacks the referee by adding: “Strength to the Swede!”
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