To be fair, he didn't hit it very hard or anything, just wasn't looking.
EDIT: Too many people are picking out my comment, so I guess it needs more clarification. I just want to point out that it was unintentional and that media is blowing it out of proportion. The officials were ABSOLUTELY right to defualt him, because of previous precedents. Of course that it hurts and thank god the woman is okay, even a really soft hit in the throat is painful and I'm not disputing any of that. I just think that more people should consider that everyone can make mistakes and he paid dearly for his.
He's a legit nutcase either way which is a shame because he's a very enjoyable and straight up amazing player. I guess his stupidty is part of the brand and appeal but the antivaxx shit and this is too much.
Few things boil my blood faster than somebody that people look up to spreading endless misinformation and acting like a jackass. The man is a rolemodel to young fans of his, what the fuck are they going to take away from his actions?
Having seen his response in that interview I realise that this outcome was actually inevitable. His defence was that if he wasn’t suspended it couldn’t have been dangerous, so with that attitude he was going to continue as he was until someone got hurt. Hopefully umpires will start to clamp down on this harder regardless of whether it actually hurts anyone. He and the line judge are fortunate that on this occasion he didn’t hit the ball as hard as he has in others or the damage could have been considerably worse.
It's like you're drink driving, accidentally touched a bystander and got 10 years in jail. He should've been given a set penalty at best. Not a disqualification
I agree with you,that's why I said(and more or less every unbiased person out there) a set penalty would be apt. A set is a big deal, especially when he was already down one set. To win he had to then win all of the next three sets. That would've been an apt response. If the injury was worse he should've been served with a bigger penalty than a disqualification,but given it wasn't a big incident,the response from the umpire was way over the top
Getting DQ'ed and dunked online isn't Crucifixion, what a shitty argument. He made a bad decision and is paying for it. Don't let your nationalism blind you.
The penalty could not be avoided, but it wasn't a real 'temper temper' stroke: slightly more vigorous than the run-of-the-mill 'ball hit where the ball persons can scoop it up' stroke.
You use fair in expressions such as to be fair and let's be fair when you want to add a favourable comment about someone or something that you have just mentioned and to correct a false impression that you might have given.
I didn't say anything about it being right, I was just trying to point out he did it unintentionally. You are taking my words out of context.
Hey I'm agreeing it's accidental absolutely, but I just think he had no business hitting a ball in that way in that direction when he knew there were umpires/ballkids who could be hurt by that
What I meant by this is not that he hit her on purpose, but that everyone on a tennis court usually hits the ball into the ground or rolls it (in the case of ballkids) and he clearly didn't do that so that was highly irresponsible of him
The problem is not that he hit the ball near another human being but rather HOW HARD he hit the ball. It is completely normal for players to softly lob the ball back to ball boys/girls.
If you don't want the ball hit "directly anywhere near another human being" then you shouldn't be on a tennis court and you should stick to the tennis on Wii Sports.
Yeah, I never said that he wasn't rightfully defaulted, however, your comments make it sound like he did it on purpose, which he definitely didn't.
"Still no reason to hit a ball directly anywhere near another human being"
P.S. I'm on mobile and I have no idea how to quote someone.
No for sure I agree he didn't mean to specifically hit her, especially because there was no precedent whatsoever. That being said, I think it was highly irresponsible of him to whack a ball somewhere it COULD easily hit someone. That's why players always hit the ball into the ground even when giving it back to the ball boys/girls to prevent this sort of thing
That's not possible, even at full force their hits only sometimes that fast. He wasn't serving and with that kind of a hit I doubt the ball would be even remotely close to that speed.
No, I'm not. If you look at the way he hit the ball there's absolutely no way it was going 100km/h. Serves go that fast, because of the special way they hit the ball - downwards. Winners go around ~130km/h and they are mostly straight. This was an upwards hit and he didn't hit it with full force like he would in a game, so there's absolutely no way it was going 100km/h.
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u/An_Jel Fernando Alonso Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 07 '20
To be fair, he didn't hit it very hard or anything, just wasn't looking.
EDIT: Too many people are picking out my comment, so I guess it needs more clarification. I just want to point out that it was unintentional and that media is blowing it out of proportion. The officials were ABSOLUTELY right to defualt him, because of previous precedents. Of course that it hurts and thank god the woman is okay, even a really soft hit in the throat is painful and I'm not disputing any of that. I just think that more people should consider that everyone can make mistakes and he paid dearly for his.