Oct 16 (Reuters) – Rafael Jodar apologised \u2060on Friday for swearing at a ball kid during his \u2060last-16 match at the Shanghai Masters, with the Spaniard saying that \u200che could not control his emotions when frustrations boiled over.<\/p>\n
After losing a point in Wednesday’s win over Dutchman Botic van de Zandschulp, Jodar angrily asked the ball kid to hand \u200bhim his towel, swearing in Spanish.<\/p>\n
The chair \u2060umpire Jimmy Pinoargote, who also speaks \u2060Spanish, gave Jodar a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct. Pinoargote then warned \u2060Jodar \u200cnot to speak like that to ball kids when the 20-year-old argued with him over the violation.<\/p>\n
“I shouldn’t have done that \u2060to the ball kid. It was my mistake. I \u200brespect a lot the \u200cball kids and the umpires in all the matches and all \u2060the tournaments. \u200bI shouldn’t have treated the ball kid the way I did,” Jodar told reporters after his quarter-final win over Casper Ruud.<\/p>\n
“I was very frustrated because how the \u2060match was going for me. It was a \u200bvery close point. I didn’t mean to hurt the feelings of the ball kid or anything, I was just frustrated with me. I couldn’t control \u2060my emotions at that point of the match.<\/p>\n
“I’ll try not to do it again, because that’s not the right way to treat the ball kids. I respect a lot their job and it wasn’t anything against him \u200bor against any ball kids or umpire.”<\/p>\n
Jodar, who \u2060beat Ruud 4-6 6-4 6-3 to reach the semi-finals on Friday, said the \u200bumpire made the right decision and he should \u200chave accepted the warning.<\/p>\n
The Spaniard also said \u200bhe would like the opportunity to apologise to the ball kid in person.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Rohith Nair in BengaluruEditing by Toby Davis)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct 16 (Reuters) – Rafael Jodar apologised \u2060on Friday for swearing at a ball kid during his \u2060last-16…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":930242,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,6675,85,747],"class_list":["post-930241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-na","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=930241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/930241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/930242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=930241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=930241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=930241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}