Djokovic, during the match against Carreño in New York.Danielle Parhizkaran / Reuters
The world number one, Novak Djokovic, was disqualified from the US Open after hitting a linesman during the round of 16 match against the Asturian Pablo Carreño, when the score reflected 6-5 in favor of the Spanish.
After giving up the last game, the Serbian turned and when he threw the ball towards the back wall, it hit the woman, who immediately fell to the ground and had to be treated by the organization's medical services.
Although Nole defended that there was no intention, as it seemed, the leadership of the great New Yorker finally decided to grant the victory to Carreño, stunned.
Nadal further occur the mishap, Djokovic approached the linesman to worry about her.
She then talked for almost ten minutes with the tournament game officials, who directly applied the rules.
In this way, in a seen and unseen, in an absolutely surreal way, the
major
lost the great favorite, the man who was chasing his 18th big and who had come to New York with the intention of closing the gap with Roger Federer (20) and Rafael Nadal (19), absent.