{"id":336336,"date":"2023-10-04T19:57:46","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T19:57:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=336336"},"modified":"2023-10-04T22:02:38","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T22:02:38","slug":"aussie-breaks-silence-after-wild-umpire-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=336336","title":{"rendered":"Aussie breaks silence after wild umpire incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

Australian tennis player Marc Polmans has apologised for hitting a ball into the face of the chair umpire<\/a> during final round qualifying at the Shanghai Masters, which led to him being immediately disqualified.<\/p>\n

Polmans, ranked 140th, had match point against Italy\u2019s Stefano Napolitano in the second set when he missed a volley and then hit the ball in anger as it bounced back from the net.<\/p>\n

His errant hit narrowly missed the ball person before hitting chair umpire Ben Anderson in the face. Anderson was apparently not seriously injured.<\/p>\n

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\"Australian<\/p>\n

\u201cAn update from me \u2013 the umpire, Ben, has accepted my apology for my actions,\u201d Polmans posted on X.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe knows it was unintentional, and I shanked the ball on the frame in frustration in the heat of the moment.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe both move on. It was a high-pressure situation and I should have reacted better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

The Australian joins Denis Shapovalov, Novak Djokovic and former British player Tim Henman as players to be disqualified from tournaments after hitting a match official or ball person with a ball.<\/p>\n

Polmans is also set to forfeit any prize money and ranking points picked up during the qualifying tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australian tennis player Marc Polmans has apologised for hitting a ball into the face of the chair umpire during final round qualifying at the Shanghai […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":336338,"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\/336336"}],"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=336336"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":336340,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336336\/revisions\/336340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/336338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}