There is even a compilation video of the racquet dedicated to Serbian superstar Novak Djokovic on YouTube, in which the US Open Champion of the newly crowned men obliterates a racket after the other, sometimes getting a warning. , sometimes losing a point.
The question of which level of bad behavior deserves a point deduction, a gambling deduction or, in some cases, the loss of an entire match, is once again a topic of debate after the final of the game. US Women's Open Saturday.
He first gave him a warning after judging that his coach was giving hand signals from the stands at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. She denied the prosecution and reprimanded Ramos, demanding an apology. Williams coach Patrick Mouratoglou admitted later that he was trying to coach his player, but was not sure he could see him.
The referee then hit Williams with a penalty points after breaking his racket.
Then he moored him to an entire game after calling a "thief" for taking this point. He said the comment was tantamount to verbal abuse.
Osaka won the match, winning their first Grand Slam title in two sets: 6-2 6-4.
The tragedy was not the first time Williams had fallen foul of US Open officials. In her semifinal in 2009 against Belgian Kim Clijsters, she received a point penalty in the match for having triggered a tirade against a linesman. The penalty point occurred at the match point, which means that the match went to Clijsters without another game being held.
In his complaint to the referee Saturday and later to tournament organizers and journalists, Williams accused Ramos of sexism, saying "there are men who do a lot worse, but because I am a woman myself "It's not good."
An observation of the bad behavior on the ground shows players – men and women – who lose points, are fined and lose matches for temper tones and foul language.
At last year's French Open, Djokovic moored a first service and received a warning for unsportsmanlike behavior for telling the same referee "you lose your head" after a call to the Serbian.
American Jeff Tarango, unable to resist the crowd in his 1995 Wimbledon match with Germany's Alexander Mronz, watched the stands and said, "Oh, shut up."
He argued with the referee that his words could not be considered obscene, asked a supervisor to intervene, while saying to the referee: "You are the most corrupt official of the game and you can not do it. "
After another violation of the code for verbal abuse, Tarango lost the match and left the court.
At a US Open, Andre Agassi received a warning for an audible obscenity for something he was about to say when approaching the referee. After hearing the umpire sanction him, he called him "son of a bitch". The game continued, however, without further admonition from the president.
There is a myriad of racquet abuse moments. Cypriot Marcos Baghdatis has gained eternal fame on the internet for a breathtaking episode at the Australian Open. During a break, he broke four rackets in less than a minute. He then lost the match and fined $ 1,250.
The International Tennis Federation states in its code of conduct what it considers violations. It defines unsportsmanlike behavior as "any misconduct on the part of a player that is clearly abusive or prejudicial to competition, the ITF or the sport of tennis".
A first offense is usually followed by a warning, a second penalty of one point and a third loss of a match. A supervisor is called to determine if violations after the third justify a defect.
In some cases, players have gone from zero to nothing without anything in between.
Argentina's David Nalbandian was disqualified from the Aegon Championship final in 2005 after launching a billboard that separated and injured the shin of a line judge. Tom Barnes, Supervisor of the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP), said he had no choice but to "declare an immediate defect".
Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov, who destroyed three rackets in the final of the Istanbul Open against Argentine Diego Schwartzmann in 2016, was also the victim of an uncontrollable match.
One of the most outstanding tennis players to have ever played a match was John McEnroe. At the 1990 Australian Open, he received his first warning for intimidating a linesman who called his ball. He stood in front of her, bouncing a ball on his racket and staring at it.
Later, after losing a point, he threw his racket on the ground and a loud creak echoed across the field, earning him another code violation. After insisting with the referee and tournament officials, he would continue to play with the damaged racket. McEnroe insulted over his shoulder as he moved away.
This earned him another violation – that one for verbal abuse – and the whole match went to his opponent, the Swede Mikael Pernfors.
