Russian tennis player Natalya Vikhlyantseva said that the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) did the right thing by deciding to refund the ranking points and prize money to world number five Andrey Rublev after his disqualification from the tournament in Dubai. His words lead the way “Championship.com”.
“I think that the decision of the ATP officials that Andrey Rublev was not deprived of qualifying points and prize money was correct, since the preventive measure is already disqualification. Maybe there was an image of that moment or, after all, a copy of the sound. What exactly Andrei said to the judge, no one knows except that judge and Andrei himself,” Vikhlyantseva said.
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.
Previously Rublev spoke He made a statement after being disqualified from a tournament in Dubai.