Tennis Player Has Complete Meltdown, Uses His Racket as Weapon After Umpire’s Controversial Call
A dramatic meltdown during a French tennis tournament merited a player a rare disqualification from competition. Mikael Ymer was ejected following a meltdown in which he violently attacked an umpire’s viewing tower with…
A dramatic meltdown during a French Tennis tournament merited a player a rare disqualification from competition.
Mikael Ymer was ejected following a meltdown in which he violently attacked an umpire’s viewing tower with his own Tennis racket.
Ymer was competing in the Lyon Open in France on Wednesday.
The Swedish national lost to Arthur Fils of France in the second-round contest, according to Mediaite.
Ymer’s meltdown began after an umpire declined to call a return from Fils as out of bounds.
The poor sport began arguing the call with the umpire after he lost the point to Fils — with the referee responding that he couldn’t check the mark of a return that Ymer continued to play as if it were in bounds.
Should he have been allowed to keep playing?