2023-06-07 09:09:00
The girl then burst into tears. Sara Sorribes Tormo and Marie Bouzkova then protested to the chair umpire when the score was 6:7 (1:7), 3:1.
When the responsible supervisor was finally called onto the pitch, he announced the disqualification of 28-year-old Kato and her partner Aldila Sutjiadi (Indonesia) and declared the game over. After the winners had to take a lot of criticism for their behavior, Sorribes Tormo now justified themselves.
They explained to the referee, who hadn’t seen the action, that the ball had hit the girl directly, the 26-year-old said, adding: “The rest of the decision was made by the manager and I don’t think that’s ours thing or we haven’t done anything bad.” That’s the only thing she’ll say about it.
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