Hungarian player Amarissa Toth has been condemned after rubbing out a ball mark with her tennis shoe after a disputed point.
China’s Zhang Shuai retired from her Hungarian Grand Prix match in tears on Tuesday after her local opponent Amarissa Toth erased a ball mark on the clay court following a disputed line call.
Second seed Zhang hit a crosscourt forehand that appeared to land on the line but was called out by the line judge. The chair umpire then stepped down to take a look at the mark and confirmed the ball had landed outside the line.The match continued for one more point but the disagreement over the disputed call continued, before Toth walked up to the mark and used her shoes to erase it.
“Absolutely disgusting behaviour,” Australia’s Ajla Tomljanovic wrote on Twitter. “Shuai is a better person than a lot of us for shaking the ref and that girl’s hand.”“I’m actually shook by the level of disrespect from this girl... If I see this girl tomorrow I will tell her how disgusted I am.”Hungary’s Amarissa Toth rubbed out a mark on the court with her foot.“Thousands of cases like this happen all over the world.
The home crowd jeered Zhang’s retirement, while Toth shook hands with her before putting her arms up in celebration.Toth defended her decision to erase the mark. “I didn’t understand why she made such a fuss about it, that she wanted to overrule the umpire’s decision,” Toth told state radio Kossuth.Reuters
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