Well of us, as if worldwide tensions weren’t excessive sufficient already, we now have a battle brewing between Canada and Italy. On Monday, at the Italian Open in Rome, one other in an extended line of temperamental younger tennis lunatics, Denis Shapovalov squared off in opposition to Turin native Lorenzo Sonego in the first spherical. Toward the finish of the second-set, with the Canadian-born Shapovalov down three factors to 4, he took concern with a name on the court docket. The umpire got here down to look at a ball mark on Sonego’s aspect of the web and in the warmth of the debate, Shapovalov stepped throughout the boundary to present the umpire the mark in query. The guidelines, nevertheless, state you can’t cross the web mid-match, and Shapovalov was handed a one-point penalty.
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