{"id":220268,"date":"2025-10-13T00:05:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220268\/"},"modified":"2025-10-13T00:05:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T00:05:07","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-narrowly-misses-ball-boy-after-throwing-tennis-racquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/220268\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka narrowly misses ball boy after throwing tennis racquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/aryna-sabalenka\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Aryna Sabalenka;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> narrowly missed a ball boy as she threw her tennis racquet on court at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/wuhan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Wuhan;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Wuhan<\/a> Open on Saturday, 11 October.<\/p>\n<p>The world number one was in pursuit of a fourth successive triumph at the tournament in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/china\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:China;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">China<\/a>, but lost her semi-final to Jessica Pegula.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to an error, Sabalenka threw her racquet towards the players&#8217; benches, almost hitting a nearby ball boy.<\/p>\n<p>She immediately held her hand up in apology towards the ball boy and a nearby camera operator.<\/p>\n<p>Sabalenka was issued a warning, a Sky Sports commentator said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka narrowly missed a ball boy as she threw her tennis racquet on court at the Wuhan&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[652,22211,23004,99,428,124106],"class_list":["post-220268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-camera-operator","tag-jessica-pegula","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-racquet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}