Rublev scandal at the ATP 500 in Dubai: he got out of control with a line judge and was disqualified

The Russian tennis player

Andrey Rublev

starred in a

scandal

this Friday when he was

disqualified

this Friday from the ATP 500 in Dubai

"for unsportsmanlike conduct."

It happened after the number 5 in the world ranking exploded against one of the linesmen during the match he was playing against the Kazakh Aleksander Bublik for a place in the final of the tournament.

When the twelfth game of the third set was being played, Rublev, champion in 2022 and finalist last year, angrily walked towards the sector where the line judge was, and shouted in his face.

Faced with this uncontrolled reaction, the chair umpire, Miriam Bley, decided to expel him and consider Bublik won the match, when the score was 6-7 (4), 7-6 (5) and 6-5 in favor of the Kazakh. .

For this attitude Rublev was DISQUALIFIED from #Dubai.

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— ESPN Tennis (@ESPNtenis) March 1, 2024

Rublev, who with this situation does not obtain points or prizes in this tournament, will leave the top 5 of the ATP ranking.

He was about to serve to tie the final chapter at six games when his chain came off.

The Russian tennis player, winner this year in Hong Kong and with fifteen titles and nine finals in his entire history, would have said

"idiot"

to the line judge after losing a point.

In this way, Bublik will play his first final of the season against the winner of the clash between the Russian Daniil Medvedev and the Frenchman Ugo Humbert.