[베이징=AP/뉴시스] Carolina Muhoba (49th, Czech Republic) is delighted after defeating Chung’s 7th, China in the 2024 Chai Naeng Women’s Singles Semi -final held at the National Tennis Stadium in Beijing, China on the 5th. Muhoba defeated Chung’s chin-won, who was aiming to win the home, to 2-0 (6-3 6-4) and played the finals and competed with Coco Gop (6th, USA). 2024.10.06.
[서울=뉴시스]Kim Yun -hyuk, intern reporter = Czech national female tennis player Karolina Muhoba (13th, Czech Republic) saw a man sitting in the stands during the game and stealing tears.
According to foreign sources such as the New York Times (NYT) on the 30th (local time), Muhoba confronted Sorana Sirstea in the second round of the US Open Tennis Tournament on the 28th.
Muhoba, who was behind 4-1 in the first set, suddenly asked to stop the game and approached the coat as if he was angry. Then he wiped his tears with his face covered with a towel.
The economy was soon resumed, and Muhoba prepared for the serve, stealing tears again, and apologizing to the crowd. Since then, he has been captured between a towel between the scores.
Muhoba, who had not lost his concentration until the end, finally won the third round and explained the situation at the press conference after the game.
“I don’t want to talk about it because it doesn’t matter with tennis,” she said. “I was sitting opposite my bench. I often appeared in a place that shouldn’t be. I was surprised and it was really hard to concentrate at that moment.”
According to the regulations, athletes can request a women’s professional tennis (WTA) or the American Tennis Association (USTA) to block the ticket issuance or access to a certain person. However, Mukho Bar did not make any requests for the man, and did not take additional measures after the game.
Two days later, Muhoba said to the reporters who asked for the situation again, “I didn’t report it, and now everything is fine.” When asked if similar things would happen again, “I don’t know that. I don’t know.”
The USSTA said it was monitoring the safety of players by mobilizing all means during the tournament and strongly responding to the physical threat of the player as well as online attacks.
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