TENNIS: Queen's 2012.
Jun. 18th, 2012 07:16 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
feather_ghyllI didn't quite get round to posting this this morning. but what a Queen's to forget (see my previous entries). To crown it all, an ending that no-one wanted in the singles final. I started watching during the second set, and by 'watching' I mean had it on in the background as I was doing something else. Cilic had just broken again, and I was hoping it would stick this time so that it would go to three sets, and suddenly the commentators were talking about instant dequalification and a linesjudge was looking distressed and bleeding from his shin, while Nalbandian hovered about him.
I don't think the commentators, or certainly not Andrew Castle, had quite seen what had happened the first time they replayed the incident, but had noticed the fall-out live. From the clip, it’s obviously unsportsmanlike behaviour. What happened next was not perfect and it shouldn't be up to the broadcasters to be making the most sensible decisions! I loved Sue for shushing the rowdies, although if someone had explained things to them or replayed the incident on the big screen on court, surely the crowd would have behaved better. They replayed the incident when Sue was in the studio and you could hear her gasp at seeing it for herself, which said it all really. Once you'd seen what had happened, you completely understood the decision - someone had been hurt because of a player's temper and that's not on.
The immediate response from the tournament organiser and the ATP representative on the BBC seemed to be 'them's the rules' as if they weren’t endorsing them. Well, it's not an unreasonable rule for someone to forfeit a match for doing something that hurts another individual in a context such as this. Obviously, he didn't set out to attack the linesjudge, but neither did he control himself because the linesjudge was so near.
And the crowd did have a top-class doubles match on next.
But it was horrible. Cilic, who behaved graciously, didn't want to get the win like that and when Nalbandian started to rant, I had to turn the volume off. Most importantly, I hope that the lines judge is okay.
My next post will not be about tennis!
I don't think the commentators, or certainly not Andrew Castle, had quite seen what had happened the first time they replayed the incident, but had noticed the fall-out live. From the clip, it’s obviously unsportsmanlike behaviour. What happened next was not perfect and it shouldn't be up to the broadcasters to be making the most sensible decisions! I loved Sue for shushing the rowdies, although if someone had explained things to them or replayed the incident on the big screen on court, surely the crowd would have behaved better. They replayed the incident when Sue was in the studio and you could hear her gasp at seeing it for herself, which said it all really. Once you'd seen what had happened, you completely understood the decision - someone had been hurt because of a player's temper and that's not on.
The immediate response from the tournament organiser and the ATP representative on the BBC seemed to be 'them's the rules' as if they weren’t endorsing them. Well, it's not an unreasonable rule for someone to forfeit a match for doing something that hurts another individual in a context such as this. Obviously, he didn't set out to attack the linesjudge, but neither did he control himself because the linesjudge was so near.
And the crowd did have a top-class doubles match on next.
But it was horrible. Cilic, who behaved graciously, didn't want to get the win like that and when Nalbandian started to rant, I had to turn the volume off. Most importantly, I hope that the lines judge is okay.
My next post will not be about tennis!
