Former world number two among juniors Anastasia Pivovarova congratulated the tennis players who defended Andrei Rublev after his disqualification during the semi-finals of the Dubai tournament.
Last week, the Russian was disqualified during his semi-final against Kazakhstan’s Alexander Bublik. At the end of the third set, Rublev shouted in Russian to the line referee, which is why the main referee of the match decided to disqualify the tennis player.
According to the regulations, Rublev had to lose all prizes and points won during the competition and leave the top 5 of the ATP rankings. However, on Monday it became known that the ATP had granted Rublev’s appeal. He kept the points and prize money he received for reaching the semi-finals of the Dubai tournament.
“I think the tennis players did the right thing by defending Rublev. Disqualifying him was clearly a bad decision. Both players were emotional during this match. In previous games, Bublik behaved literally the same way. In general, they are both quite emotional players.
He is spectacular during matches and draws attention to tennis. The disqualification was an unfair decision in relation to Andrey, since the opponent behaved in the same way and it was Rublev who was disqualified. So both should have been disqualified. “I don’t agree that Andrei behaved worse than Bublik,” Pivovarova said, as quoted by Gazeta.Ru.
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