French tennis player Hugo Gaston has been fined $144,000 for repeatedly forcing the referee to replay a match. In this respect informs L’Equipe.
In the second round match with Borna Coric from Croatia at the Masters series tournament in Madrid, the 22-year-old athlete (3:6, 3:6) ordered the referee to deliberately drop the ball from his pocket during the opponent’s kick. Play it again.
At the end of 2022, the Frenchman had received a warning from the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) that such actions were unacceptable, which is why his sentence turned out to be so large.
This season, Gaston played seven games in the ATP and won just over $121,000 in tournament prizes.
It was previously reported that Russian tennis player Daniil Medvedev died. was the winner Tournament series “Masters” held in Rome.
The rival of the Russians was Dane Holger Rune. The final match lasted 1 hour and 40 minutes and ended 7:5, 7:5 in favor of Medvedev in two sets.