Russian tennis player, world number five Andrey Rublev, thanked the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for accepting his appeal against disqualification in the semi-final of the ATP 500 tournament in Dubai. Wrote this on social network X.
“I would like to thank the appeals committee for considering my appeal and changing the original decision of the ATP regarding my disqualification from the semi-final of the tournament in Dubai, as well as considering my loss of ranking points and prize money last week.” wrote the athlete.
Rublev called on the ATP to change the rules so that the referee could not influence the outcome of the match without clear evidence and without allowing the player to watch the video replay. He also vowed to learn from this and become a better player and person in the future.
On March 1, the 26-year-old Russian was disqualified in the semifinal match against the representative of Kazakhstan, Alexander Bublik, with scores of 7:6 (7:4), 6:7 (5:7), 5:6.
Rublev doubted his ball went out of bounds and shouted at the line judge, calling him a “moron”. The referee did not understand anything, but another referee who understood Russian heard this insult and reported it to the match referee and translated it into English using profanity. The supervisory authority decided to immediately disqualify Rublev.
The tennis player became enraged and tried to convince his superior that he had not sworn and that the translation of the Russian-speaking referee was not entirely correct. However, the decision remained in effect.
formerly American criticized The judge disqualified Rublev.