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If tennis is being characterized by something in recent times, it is by the increasingly frequent gestures of anger carried out by tennis players.

This Tuesday was the turn of the Russian

Andrey Rublev

, who admitted having "

lost his mind

" after being about to hit one of the Roland Garros court cleaners with a pitch.

After losing the first set in a

tie break

against South Korea's

Soonwoo Kwon

, the world number 7 hit a ball hard against his chair, which bounced off.

He almost hit one of the workers raking the dirt off the runway in the head, which thanks to the cap he was wearing hit the impact.

"

At that moment I lost my mind and of course I regret what I did. It is unacceptable to hit the ball the way I did

," explained the Russian, who ended up winning the match 6-7 (5/7), 6- 3, 6-2 and 6-4.

"

It's better if you just hit the racket on the chair, because the ball can hit someone

," he added.

"

It's not professional on my part and I hope I never repeat it again

," she concluded.

OTHER CASES

During this season, Australian

Nick Kyrgios

unintentionally hit a young boy in the stands with a pitch in a doubles match at the Australian Open and remedied it

by

giving the little boy his racket.

More serious was what the German

Alexander Zverev

(No. 3) did, who after losing a doubles match in Acapulco, hit the match judge's chair several times with his racket, for which he was excluded from the Mexican tournament.

In addition to losing the points earned in Acapulco, the ATP applied to the German an additional fine of 25,000 dollars and a two-month ban, but these measures were suspended as long as the German does not break the rules again for a year.

Novak Djokovic was

also disqualified from the US Open in 2020 after in a fit of anger he hit a ball hard and it hit a line judge.

After what happened with Zverev, the Spanish

Rafael Nadal

positioned himself in favor of more serious sanctions for violent behavior.

"If we are not able to control this type of attitude on the field, and other things have happened in recent months (...) and to create a rule or a way to penalize this type of attitude more harshly, then we players feel stronger and stronger (...:) And in my opinion,

in sport we have to be a positive example especially for children

, "argued the Balearic.

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