One of the more bizarre stories from the weekend happened Saturday when No. 1 seed Novak Djokovic was defaulted from the US Open after inadvertently hitting a line judge in the neck with a ball.
Here’s footage of Djokovic firing a ball off the court and accidentally nailing the line judge:
Novak Djokovic (-125), the #1 seed in the tournament just got defaulted from the US Open after hitting the line judge in the neck pic.twitter.com/dvJQgLPFfA
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Djokovic was defaulted from the tournament:
Novak Djokovic getting disqualified after accidentally hitting a line judge out of frustration #USOpen2020 pic.twitter.com/S89JB6OxvQ
— Scott McG (@ScottMcG123) September 6, 2020
Here’s the rule that was used to disqualify Djokovic:
USTA statement on default of Novak Djokovic: pic.twitter.com/dqlt0mokg9
— US Open Tennis (@usopen) September 6, 2020
Novak statement via Instagram. He left the grounds and didn’t address the media pic.twitter.com/yGOHloWb8k
— Adam Zagoria (@AdamZagoria) September 6, 2020
