{"id":129208,"date":"2021-09-15T02:04:26","date_gmt":"2021-09-15T02:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=129208"},"modified":"2021-09-15T02:58:09","modified_gmt":"2021-09-15T02:58:09","slug":"bad-boy-struck-in-genitals-kicked-out-of-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=129208","title":{"rendered":"Bad boy struck in genitals, kicked out of event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tennis bad boy <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/tennys-sandgren\" title=\"Tennys Sandgren\" target=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tennys Sandgren<\/a> has been kicked out of a Challenger event, defaulted from a match that descended into farcical scenes.<\/p>\n<p>The fiery American was the No.1 seed for the Atlantic Tire Championship Challenger event in Cary and he was looking comfortable in his first round clash with Christopher Eubanks.<\/p>\n<p>Sandgren had broken his opponent in the first game and was up 40-30 in the second when he hit a forehand long.<\/p>\n<p>The player was frustrated and his anger boiled over when a ballkid bounced a ball to him that accidentally struck him square in the genitals (he posted vision of that moment in the tweet below).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennysSandgren\/status\/1437933892456140809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennysSandgren\/status\/1437933892456140809?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The American angrily lashed at the ball, which flew off his racquet and hit a linesperson in the backside.<\/p>\n<p>Sandgren was immediately defaulted and his opponent was handed the most unusual victory.<\/p>\n<p>Sandgren took to Twitter later to laugh about the incident, and acknowledge he had erred in his actions.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Just to be clear, this was all totally my fault,&quot; Sandgren wrote in a post along with vision of the incident.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennysSandgren\/status\/1437935687089770501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" class=\"embed-social embed-twitter\" data-show-caption=\"false\" data-conversation=\"none\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennysSandgren\/status\/1437935687089770501?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Tennis bad boy Tennys Sandgren has been kicked out of a Challenger event, defaulted from a match that descended into farcical scenes. The fiery American <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=129208\" title=\"Bad boy struck in genitals, kicked out of event\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129209,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129208\/revisions\/129209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}