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Daria Kasatkina didn’t like the treatment suffered by Andrey Rublev at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Tournament.
Shock in Dubai! Rublev insults the line judge and is disqualified: The Russian gave in to his emotions again, seriously insulting a young line judge https://t.co/2IH291wt7o #ATPTennis pic.twitter.com/plA0jonAq8
— TennisWorld USA (@TennisworldUSA) March 2, 2024
The Russian tennis player defended her countryman through a post in which she accused the chair umpire and supervisor of not having checked all the videos available to her.
“So you can just disqualify a player, take away all his points and money, without even checking the video? What a joke, yet another confirmation that we need VAR in tennis and an electronic appeal system in all tournaments,” said Kasatkina.
So you can just default a player, take his points and money away, without even checking a video replay??? What a joke, another confirmation we need a VAR in tennis and electronic line calling on all tournaments
— Daria Kasatkina (@DKasatkina) March 1, 2024
Rublev was defaulted for this – apparently translated from Russian and it was so bad it was an immediate default. Can anyone confirm? He was adamant he was speaking English
