Miyu Kato has been talked about a lot Roland-Garros. Disqualified due to a ball sent involuntarily in the throat of a ball collector, the Japanese could not digest this traumatic episode until after winning the tournament in mixed doubles. A small consolation, when you know that she lost her prize money and the points of the women’s doubles tournament. Since then, she has had the opportunity to speak to Claytenis and the revelations of the one who would have liked to play Wimbledon alongside Kei Nishikori are amazing…
After the tears, Kato’s big smile, sacred to Roland
“It was in the neck, it was different…”
The referee and the supervisor spoke to me afterwards and said, “If the ball boy had been a boy, there would have been no problem.“”, astonishing words in the age of gender equality, but this would be due to the strong reaction of the young girl: “They also explained to me that since the girl cried for more than 15 minutes, they had to make a decision because if she had stopped after five minutes everything would have been fine, or if the bullet had hit her legs or her arms, they wouldn’t have disqualified me. But no, since it was in the neck, it was different “. The rules stipulate that the player is disqualified when the strike results from a gesture of anger.
“Buzkova sent me a message”
She also explains that she harbors a resentment against Sara Smiles Tormo et Marie Bouzkova, who had claimed the disqualification when they had not seen the scene: “Bouzkova sent me a message, but I didn’t answer. She said, ‘I’m sorry for today, I hope you and your partner are doing well. Difficult to forgive the two players…
2023-06-22 21:04:00
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