David Nalbandian has been disqualified from this afternoon’s AEGON Championships final against Marin Cilic at Queen’s after kicking an advertising board into a linejudge’s leg, the Telegraph reports.
Nalbandian won the first set on a tie-break but reacted angrily after being broken for the second time in the second set.
Having just lost the seventh game Nalbandian fiercely kicked an advertising board in front of line judge Andrew McDougall’s chair.The board smacked into the line judge’s shin and a caused an inch-long bloody gash.Referee Fergus Murphy then awarded Cilic the match, and the championship, disqualifying Nalbandian for “unsportsmanlike behaviour.”
“I’m very sorry to do that, sometimes you get very frustrated and it’s tough to control,” Nalbandian said. “It was a mistake. It’s a tough moment to end a final like that.
“Today I did a mistake, everyone makes mistakes, I am very sorry.”The crowd booed and chanted “play on”, but the decision was final and Cilic was handed the crown.
Sunday, June 17, 2012
David Nalbaldian disqualified from Queen's final for injuring a linesman after kicking hoarding around him (video)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment