The situation happened during the Masters 1000 in Madrid and was carried out by Hugo Gastón. The amount of money you will have to pay is more than what you have earned all year.
Hugo Gaston received one of the biggest fines in tennis history. The Frenchman will have to pay a total of $144,000 for intentionally throwing a ball out of his pocket to save a point during the Madrid Masters 1000. In Chilean pesos, the penalty is equivalent to approximately 114 million.
It all happened in the second round of the tournament, when Gaston faced Borna Coric. With a set point against at 3-5 and seeing that after throwing a lob, his chances of winning the point were almost nil, the Frenchman he took out the ball he had in his pocket and threw it to the ground, waiting for the referee to shout “let” and suspend the rally . Even, once the main judge has not sanctioned anything, the tennis player points the ball to the ground and demands the repetition of the point.
Lo and behold, more than two weeks after said match, we learn that not only did they not repeat the point, but that he was also penalized for this unsportsmanlike attitude. The ATP reported that Gaston had previously been investigated for a similar incident, so in this case the monetary penalty was increased as he was a repeat offender.
“In flagrant circumstances particularly detrimental to the success of a tournament, or in particularly serious cases, the ATP Supervisor may refer the case to the ATP Fines Committee, which will conduct an investigation to determine whether the infraction was aggravated behavior or contrary behavior. to the integrity of the game has been committed by the player “, indicates the ATP regulations.
The rule also frames the basic fines that tennis players will face in each competition: 20,000 euros in the ATP Challenger Tour, 30,000 in the ATP 250 tournaments, 40,000 in the ATP 500 and 60,000 Masters 1,000. We remember, for example, the punishment of Nick Kyrgios at Cincinnati 2019 of $ 113,000 for his bad behavior on the field.
In the case of Gaston, the amount of money he will have to pay to the ATP is still more than all the money he earned playing in 2023. For tournament prizes, he got 114,200 euros , nearly 400,000 less than the penalty.
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