The history of tennis is full of legends, anecdotes, incredible stories and even absurd disqualifications that have resulted in truly unimaginable victories or defeats even for the most experienced players of Maine Sports Betting or other similar specialized portals.
The most recent event concerns the tennis player Bernabe Zapata Miralles. The Spaniard, currently number 232 in the world, was disqualified in the first round of the Mouilleron Challenger tournament in France. During the match with the Canadian player Steve Diez, the Spanish player was summoned by the referee who noticed an anomaly in his clothing: “Bernabe, you have a big hole in your shorts, you cannot stay like that”. Unfortunately, the tennis player couldn’t find a pair of intact shorts to play with. As a result, the 22-year-old was disqualified for “lack of decent clothing”.
Another episode concerned the very young Italian tennis player Maria Vittoria Viviani, disqualified during the second round of the Australian Open junior for unintentionally hitting a ball kid. This is how she recounts the fact: “Second round against the Chinese Wang. I lose my first set 6-2 but I’m not angry. Now I’m going to reverse the trend, I say to myself. I hit the ball next to me, with the tail of my eye I clearly see that there is no one there. But a ball boy, a young kid, in that moment runs forward and bends over to pick up the ball, which hits him on the neck. A fatality but nothing serious: not a violent blow, even less intentional. I apologize immediately. He’s fine, back in position. And I think the matter is solved.” Instead, the disqualification arrived: “The umpire comes in, talks to the child, who confirms that he’s been hit in the neck. I see him, he’s fine, I ask him to talk to us. They forbid me. They whisper something, I wait. The umpire comes to me: I’m sorry, we have to disqualify you, it’s the rules. The game is over. I’m in shock, I burst into tears”.
The Canadian Denis Shapovalov, in a Davis match against Great Britain, knocked out both the referee and his national team, with a shot thrown with irritation that hit the eye of the chair referee in full, leading to his disqualification and Great Britain moving on to the quarterfinals. A gesture that certainly wasn’t intentional and the tennis player, after this terrible episode, has personally apologized.
And then there are less recent but very famous cases such as the disqualification of David Nalbandian during the final at Queen’s in 2012 against Marin Cilic, for kicking the advertising boards at the feet of a linesman injuring him in the leg. Or, the disqualification of Serena Williams in the 2009 Us Open semifinals against Kim Clijsters, for heavily insulting a lineswoman after a foot fault.
We can also remember the Italian Pescosolido, who in 1992 in Sydney, in a match against the home tennis player Anderson, on the 3-2 of the third set and service by the opponent, missed a return, threw the racket to the ground and kicked it taking advantage of the bounce. It could have ended with a simple warning, but the racket hit a spectator almost on the right eye, injuring her eyebrow. Pescosolido apologized immediately, even reaching the woman and asking about her condition, but what’s done is done. He was disqualified from the tournament.
