UK tennis star Cameron Norrie accidentally hits woman with stands in Auckland

British tennis star Cameron Norrie has apologized and avoided suspension after a racquet he threw in the air hit a spectator at an ATP Tour tournament in Auckland on Tuesday.

Auckland-born Norrie was facing a match point against Argentina’s Facundo Diaz Acosta when he threw his racquet in the air. This race hit a woman in the box outside the court and she was not injured.

Video of the incident showed a hooded woman reacting quickly and throwing a racket as the crowd gasped.

Norrie received a warning from the chair umpire and continued to lose 6-2, 6-3 in the first round of the tournament. He reached the final in Auckland in 2023.

“I didn’t mean to do that but it’s still not good to do that and I’ve never done anything like that,” Norrie said. (A spectator) “we were laughing and I just said ‘sorry, I didn’t mean to do that.’ He said ‘yes, I’m perfectly fine.’

“It wasn’t a big deal. But as we’ve seen with other players, you can be undone easily if you catch them in the wrong place or they’re not looking or something.

“I didn’t mean to do that and it’s never me to do something like that. I apologized immediately and I want to apologize in general. I’m not happy with how I behaved.”

According to ESPN, Norrie was ranked 49th in the world last year and 18th in the world in 2023.

Novak Djokovic has been eliminated from the 2020 US Open after accidentally hitting a line judge with the ball and at the 2023 French Open Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi lost the women’s doubles after Kato’s ball hit a ball girl.

And in 2023, Australian tennis player Marc Polmans failed to qualify for the final round of the Shanghai Masters after hitting the ball in the face of the chair umpire.

According to the BBC, Canada’s Denis Shapovalov was not allowed to hit the referee with the ball in the 2017 Davis Cup match against Great Britain, and in 2012 Argentine tennis player David Nalbandian was ejected for injuring the referee by kicking a billboard. Shin.