Musetti warned for kicking ball at Paris line judge

PARIS -- Lorenzo Musetti was warned for unsportsmanlike behaviour for kicking a tennis shot that inadvertently deed a linesperson during his French Open quarterfinal against Frances Tiafoe connected Tuesday.

Unlike astir top-level tennis tournaments, which trust connected physics line-calling, determination are inactive humans connected tribunal astatine Roland-Garros to marque rulings connected whether shots onshore successful oregon out.

The eighth-seeded Musetti, who won a bronze medal for Italy astatine the Paris Olympics and was a semifinalist astatine Wimbledon past year, had conscionable dropped a crippled to way Tiafoe 5-3 successful the 2nd acceptable of their lucifer astatine Court Philippe-Chatrier.

As Musetti was fixed balls truthful helium could service successful the adjacent game, helium took a left-footed swipe astatine 1 and it flew into a pistillate enactment justice making calls down his baseline.

The seat umpire instantly announced to the assemblage that Musetti was being fixed a informing for a codification violation. There is nary punishment for an archetypal informing of that sort.

Soon, Tiafoe claimed that set. Musetti had taken the opener successful the best-of-five-set lucifer with a semifinal berth astatine stake. Neither of them has been to the last 4 astatine Roland-Garros.