Unheard. The Turkish tennis player Zeynep Sönmez suffered an incident during her doubles match second round that forced him to withdraw.
During the third game, Sönmez ran backwards almost backwards to return a ball without realizing that there was a sign advertising on the track at one end of it. The Turkish woman, who was playing the duel alongside the German Tatjana Maria, She tripped over the static advertising, fell and remained sitting on the floor, visibly wincing.
The chair umpire, his partner and the rivals, the Ukrainians Yastremska and Kalinina, quickly came to assist her. Sönmez had to be treated by the physio, but was unable to continue playing, so the pair were forced to withdraw.
This incident has once again sparked controversy over this type of posters and advertising elements that sometimes end up bothering tennis players, since it is not the first time something like this has happened. In fact, this same week ago, Alexander Blockx also had to retire before even taking to the court to face De Minaur due to an ankle injury due to the tarps that are at the end of the field, folded and ready in case of rain.
