World number 33 Yulia Putintseva raised security concerns about a spectator during her first-round match at Wimbledon, asking for them to be ejected.<\/b><\/p>\n
Early on in her match against Amanda Anisimova on court 15, the 30-year-old complained directly to the umpire about a spectator, whom she described as “crazy” and “dangerous”.<\/p>\n
A club spokesperson said the matter was “dealt with”.<\/p>\n
During a change of ends when trailing 3-0 in the opening set, Putintseva, from Kazakhstan, first voiced her concerns.<\/p>\n
“Can you take him out, I am not going to continue playing until he leaves. These people are dangerous, they are crazy,” she said.<\/p>\n
She was then seen pointing towards an area of the crowd and described the person as wearing green.<\/p>\n
The chair umpire came down onto the court and spoke to three members of security staff.<\/p>\n
When Putintseva was told play would resume, she was heard saying she did not want to do so until security had handled it.<\/p>\n
“Take him out, because maybe he has a knife,” she said.<\/p>\n
Putintseva was emotional later in the match and went on to lose 6-0 6-0 in 45 minutes.<\/p>\n
She did not speak to the media afterwards.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the All England Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) told BBC Sport: “Following a complaint about the behaviour of a spectator at the match on court 15, the chair umpire informed security and the matter was dealt with.”<\/p>\n
Anisimova, meanwhile, told the BBC she believed the spectator had been saying something “when [Putintseva] was about to serve” and added: “I am sure that we were protected”.<\/p>\n
Earlier, AELTC chief executive Sally Bolton said on the subject of security: “We’re well-versed in the measures that need to be put in place so players can go about playing here in the confidence they’re being well looked after.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"World number 33 Yulia Putintseva raised security concerns about a spectator during her first-round match at Wimbledon, asking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":228351,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4105],"tags":[79,1068,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-228350","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114776054499167622","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228350\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228351"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}