British tennis star Cameron Norrie accidentally hit a woman in the stands with a thrown racket at a tournament in Auckland

British tennis star Cameron Norrie has apologized and avoided disqualification when his racket hit a spectator at the ATP Tour tournament in Auckland on Tuesday.

Auckland-born Nouri was facing match point against Argentine Facundo Diaz Acosta when he threw his racket lightly in the air. The racket struck a woman in a box next to the court, but she was not injured.

Video of the accident It showed a woman wearing a hat reacting quickly and swinging the racket away as the crowd gasped.

Nouri received a warning from the chair referee and lost 6-2, 6-3 in the first round of the tournament. Reached final in Auckland in 2023.

“I didn’t mean to do it, but it’s still not ideal to do it and I’ve never done anything like this before,” Nouri said. (Spectator) “He was laughing and I said, ‘I’m so sorry, I didn’t mean to do that.’ And she said, ‘Yes, I’m totally fine.’”

“It wasn’t a big deal. But as we’ve seen with some of the other players, you can easily default if you catch them in the wrong place or they’re not looking or something.”

“I didn’t mean to do that and I had no right to do something like that at all. I apologized very quickly and I want to apologize in general. I’m not happy with the way I behaved.”

According to ESPN, Nouri is ranked 49th in the world last year And 18th place in the world 2023.

Novak Djokovic has been disqualified From the 2020 US Open after she accidentally hit the line judge with the ball and at the 2023 French Open Mio Kato and Aldila Sutjadi were disqualified from the women’s doubles after the ball was hit by Kato, the ball girl.

Also in 2023, Australian tennis player Mark Polmans was disqualified from the final round of qualifying for the Shanghai Masters after hitting the ball in the face of a chair umpire.

According to the BBCCanadian Denis Shapovalov defaulted Hitting the referee with the ball During the 2017 Davis Cup match against Great Britain, while in 2012 Argentine tennis player David Nalbandian was excluded from the tournament. After the line judge was injured By kicking a billboard in the leg.