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An uncontrolled ball ended the hopes of Japan's Miyu Kato and Indonesia's Aldila Sutjiadi at Roland Garros. Both were disqualified from the doubles tournament on Sunday after the Japanese tennis player accidentally hit a ball ball ball. The incident occurred when the Asian players led the second set 3-1, after losing the first to the pair formed by the Czech Marie Bouzkova and the Spanish Sara Sorribes.

After finishing a point, Kato threw a ball to the other side of the court in the direction of the ball boy to try to speed up the game. But the ball ended up hitting the girl in the neck, who burst into inconsolable tears. Kato immediately came to ask for forgiveness.

At first, the Japanese received a warning from the chair umpire, but eventually a supervisor disqualified the pair in the third round, after Bouzkova and Sorribes protested to the judge. In addition, Roland Garros withdrew the points and money they had earned so far in Paris.

"The warning was because the chair umpire didn't see that she was crying and that she was in pain," Bouzkova explained. "We told the supervisor that he should look at it more closely, because we saw that the young woman was crying and that the ball went straight towards her. It's not like I've bounced or it's a slow ball," he added.

The disqualification was reminiscent of what happened to Novak Djokovic at the 2020 US Open, when he was also eliminated after hitting a line judge with a ball he had hit in frustration.

However, on Saturday, Russian teenager Mirra Andreeva dodged disqualification after sending a ball towards the court crowd Suzanne Lenglen during her match against American Coco Gauff. "Immediately afterwards I thought it was very stupid of me, because it was not necessary to do that," admitted Andreeva, who ended up losing the duel.

"It was completely unintentional. As a result, I have been penalized by RG (Roland Garros) with the loss of points and prize money. Thank you for your constant support," Japan's Kato said in a message on Twitter, in which she also apologized to the girl.

The decision to disqualify the Asian couple has received numerous criticisms on social networks, where it is considered that Kato's action was totally unintentional, since he only sought to pass the ball to the ball boy with a soft delivery.

The comments criticize the supervisor, the girl for crying from a "slight" impact and also Sorribes and Bouzkova for getting the attention of the chair umpire, in what they interpret as an attempt to have their rivals disqualified.

This Monday, Sara Sorribes gave her version of the disqualification of her rivals: "The people who are criticizing us did not see the game. Those who watched the game do not think so. The ball was twice as strong as what you see in the video and we did not have any kind of attitude like that, "said the Spaniard.

Sorribes acknowledged that they told the incident to the referee, who had not seen it, but pointed out that the decision to disqualify the Japanese was made by the supervisor. "The rule is the rule. If Marie or I do that, we arm in arm and leave. There are people involved who deserve respect. You can't make that child have a panic attack like she had and throw herself crying for 20 minutes. Anyone who talks about this issue would have to watch the whole game and it would change their perspective," he said.

The Spaniard said she did not want to enter social networks, where she is being harshly criticized, so that it did not affect her participation in the individual knockout match, where she fell against Brazilian Beatriz Haddad, and acknowledged that she was afraid of being booed when jumping on the track.

"But it is clear that there have been no bad comments," said Sorribes, who also does not expect a bad reaction in his next doubles match because "the people who will come are the ones who saw the full match." "I adore Marie and I have a bestial illusion of playing with her, it is to have fun, have fun, share with someone to whom I am very fond. It's beautiful, we're going to try," he said.

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