Sports Desk, AnyTV, Mexico City
Published by: swapnil shashank
Updated Wed, 23 Feb 2022 06:45 PM IST
Summary
Zverev and Melo lost the third and deciding set 10-6. Due to this, Zverev’s mercury rose to the seventh heaven and he was seen slamming the racket in anger.
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A video of a shameful act at the Mexican Open tennis tournament has surfaced. World number three Alexander Zverev of Germany lost his cool during a men’s doubles match and attacked the umpire’s chair with his tennis racket. Zverev hit that chair several times in a row. After this, the tennis administration has taken action against him and thrown him out of the tournament.
Zverev’s mercury rises during men’s doubles match
On Wednesday, Zverev entered the court with Brazil’s Marcelo Melo in the men’s doubles match. The two faced Finland’s Lloyd Glaspool and Harry Heliovara. After losing the first set 6-2, Zverev and Melo came back strongly in the second set to win the set 6-4. Zverev and Melo then lost the third and deciding set 10-6. Due to this, Zverev’s mercury rose to the seventh heaven and he was seen slamming the racket in anger.
We may not be watching Sascha Zverev play in a tennis match for some time. This behavior will not be tolerated by the Tour. Haven’t seen anything like this before…maybe ever.
Serena’s incident at the US Open doesn’t compare even a little to this mess.
— Nate Walroth (@nate_walroth) February 23, 2022
Zverev’s video went viral on social media
This whole incident happened during the live match. The video of this incident is now going viral. It is seen in the video that as soon as Zverev comes to the umpire after the match, he attacks the chair with a racket. After hitting the chair three times with a racket, he sits on his bench. Then he gets up saying something and once again hits the racket on the chair. The umpire also tries to protect himself during this.
Daniil Medvedev was also fined
World number two Daniil Medvedev of Russia was also seen misbehaving with the umpire at the Australian Open in January. This player had abused the umpire in the semi-final match against Stefanos Tsitsipas. After this, the Australian Tennis Board fined Medvedev 12,000 US dollars in different cases. At the same time, in the Tokyo Olympics last year, world number-1 Novak Djokovic was also seen hitting the racket here and there on the tennis court.