Hitting an inviting short ball at an opponent who has moved towards the net is another common flashpoint.<\/p>\n
Tsitsipas, regularly at the centre of drama, decided tagging Altmaier was fair game following his opponent’s underarm serve.<\/p>\n
“Next time, don’t wonder why I hit you, OK? I’m just saying, if you serve underarm\u2026” Tsitsipas told Altmaier at the net.<\/p>\n
It is not the first time Tsitsipas has drawn ire for trying this tactic.<\/p>\n
Targeting Arthur Fils’ body in Rome earlier this year did not pay off, as the incident fuelled the Frenchman on his way to victory. <\/p>\n
Doubles player Andrea Vavassori was less pleased in Monte Carlo when he was struck in the ribs by American opponent Ben Shelton – who then labelled the Italian “soft”.<\/p>\n
Norrie thinks hitting a ball at an opponent is fair game.<\/p>\n
“Obviously you apologise but I think that’s a perfectly good play – it\u2019s usually the best option to go middle,” he said.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s good to acknowledge what you\u2019ve done but you move on, man.<\/p>\n
“If you’re hit with a tennis ball it’s not the end of the world – it’s not like we\u2019re playing rugby.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hitting an inviting short ball at an opponent who has moved towards the net is another common flashpoint.…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":196577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-196576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115139889409431149","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}