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PostPosted: Sun Jun 04, 2023 1:53 pm 
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French Open doubles player Miyu Kato of Japan disqualified for accidentally hitting a ball girl. Isn't a ball boy/girl always at risk of getting hit by a tennis ball at these gran slam tennis tournaments? Like isn't that there whole job to catch errant tennis balls?

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French Open doubles player Miyu Kato and her partner were forced to forfeit a match when Kato accidentally hit a ball girl in the neck with a ball after a point on Sunday.

In the second set on Court 14 at Roland Garros, Kato took a swing with her racket and the ball flew toward the ball kid, who was not looking in the player’s direction while heading off the court.

At first, chair umpire Alexandre Juge only issued a warning to Kato. But after tournament referee Remy Azemar and Grand Slam supervisor Wayne McEwen went to Court 14 to look into what happened, Kato and her partner, Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia, were disqualified.

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1 - the umpire who disqualified the 2 women's doubles players for innocent hit on a ball girl.
2 - The over dramatic ball girl crying for 15 minutes like she got hit with a baseball at 90 miles an hour when in reality it was a tennis ball lobbed in her direction that accidently hit her at slow speed.



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I wasn't really sure what "accidentally" meant in this context. That video makes it hard to see what actually happened. Did the player just randomly whack a ball out of frustration after losing a point? If that's the case, I have no problem with the disqualification.

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You're right. It could have been disrespectful or it could have been just an unlucky lob to the person who collects and distributes the balls.

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Ball girl should’ve been kicked out for carrying on.

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it wasnt even hit hard. to get dq'd because a ball kid wasnt paying attention is rough


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the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y


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qatar would have taken the kid out back to never be found again and replaced her with another immigrant child, all to the cheers of the international community. The French are soft

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Tennis is a dumb sport

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Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
Tennis is a dumb sport

In concept it’s a great sport. Just hitting a ball back & forth - awesome idea.

F for execution. It’s a tremendously boring spectator sport both on tv and in person, combining all the worst elements of better sports - the downtime of baseball, the stop/start of football, the shushing of golf, the Eastern Europeans of basketball…it’s like the Captain Planet of bad ideas.

They need to LIV it up and have people throwing beer on the court.

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This Ends in Antioch wrote:
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
Tennis is a dumb sport

In concept it’s a great sport. Just hitting a ball back & forth - awesome idea.

F for execution. It’s a tremendously boring spectator sport both on tv and in person, combining all the worst elements of better sports - the downtime of baseball, the stop/start of football, the shushing of golf, the Eastern Europeans of basketball…it’s like the Captain Planet of bad ideas.

They need to LIV it up and have people throwing beer on the court.


This would get me hooked in.

Tennis has always bothered me because its such an elitist sport. I realize golf is also perceived as elitist, but at least with golf, its acceptable to smoke a cigar and drink a beer while I play. Unless Agassi or McEnroe are playing, you can keep it.

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I wasn't really sure what "accidentally" meant in this context. That video makes it hard to see what actually happened. Did the player just randomly whack a ball out of frustration after losing a point? If that's the case, I have no problem with the disqualification.
Seems what happened is a ball hit the net and sort of sat there in the center of the court. The player went to hit it out of the way backwards...like a batter sort of swatting at a ball on the ground to knock it back towards the dugout. The ballgirl was running out to get the ball and got hit. Seemed like a freak accident and nobody should care because its women's tennis.

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the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y

That was pretty gutless. Whoever they are I hope they get embarrassed in their next match.

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Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
This Ends in Antioch wrote:
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
Tennis is a dumb sport

In concept it’s a great sport. Just hitting a ball back & forth - awesome idea.

F for execution. It’s a tremendously boring spectator sport both on tv and in person, combining all the worst elements of better sports - the downtime of baseball, the stop/start of football, the shushing of golf, the Eastern Europeans of basketball…it’s like the Captain Planet of bad ideas.

They need to LIV it up and have people throwing beer on the court.


This would get me hooked in.

Tennis has always bothered me because its such an elitist sport. I realize golf is also perceived as elitist, but at least with golf, its acceptable to smoke a cigar and drink a beer while I play. Unless Agassi or McEnroe are playing, you can keep it.



The amount of cigarettes and alcohol I saw consumed on tennis courts in the 80's.. Hell, I was pretty sure that was why the adults were playing.


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Regular Reader wrote:
man of few opinions wrote:
the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y

That was pretty gutless. Whoever they are I hope they get embarrassed in their next match.

Yeah that is my problem with it all. Completely gutless.

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RFDC wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
man of few opinions wrote:
the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y

That was pretty gutless. Whoever they are I hope they get embarrassed in their next match.

Yeah that is my problem with it all. Completely gutless.


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Nas wrote:
RFDC wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
man of few opinions wrote:
the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y

That was pretty gutless. Whoever they are I hope they get embarrassed in their next match.

Yeah that is my problem with it all. Completely gutless.


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maybe you do, some of us have limits.


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man of few opinions wrote:
Nas wrote:
RFDC wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
man of few opinions wrote:
the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y

That was pretty gutless. Whoever they are I hope they get embarrassed in their next match.

Yeah that is my problem with it all. Completely gutless.


You win whatever way you can.

maybe you do, some of us have limits.


It's easier said when you aren't competing. It's like telling a ref you didn't really get fouled. It would never happen.

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Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
Tennis is a dumb sport


Especially the scoring. Never understood the logic of 15-30-40.

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Nas wrote:
man of few opinions wrote:
Nas wrote:
RFDC wrote:
Regular Reader wrote:
man of few opinions wrote:
the other team imploring the officials to disqualify them was pretty cringe-y

That was pretty gutless. Whoever they are I hope they get embarrassed in their next match.

Yeah that is my problem with it all. Completely gutless.


You win whatever way you can.

maybe you do, some of us have limits.


It's easier said when you aren't competing. It's like telling a ref you didn't really get fouled. It would never happen.

LOL yeah it’s exactly like that


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Jaw Breaker wrote:
Crystal Lake Hoffy wrote:
Tennis is a dumb sport


Especially the scoring. Never understood the logic of 15-30-40.

Because it's gay

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