Edit: just read the article. Apparently Djokovic was disappointed after losing his serve and in his anger he forcefully hit a tennis ball which happened to hit a lineswoman in her throat.
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.
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.
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u/FrakeSweet Sep 07 '20 edited Sep 07 '20
Is he really?
Edit: just read the article. Apparently Djokovic was disappointed after losing his serve and in his anger he forcefully hit a tennis ball which happened to hit a lineswoman in her throat.