Crazy ending sees Acapulco quarter-finalist receive point penalty, results in elimination
- Christian Montegan
- 4 hours ago
- 2 min read
The quarter-final between Terence Atmane and Miomir Kecmanović at Mexico's Acapulco Open has ended with a point penalty.
Atmane, 24, was trailing his Serbian opponent 3-6, 3-5, when he walked over to the ball girl to quickly use his towel.
After already receiving a time violation warning, Atmane was docked a point for making Kecmanović wait to serve, which resulted in his exit from the tournament in rather bizarre scenes.
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The purpose of enforcing time violations is to ensure the speed of the match flows to eradicate a stop-start effect. In this case, Atmane failed to play to the speed of the server.
For Kecmanović, he will face fifth seed Flavio Cobolli for a place in the final of the ATP 500 event.
It has been a weird tournament in Acapulco, with the top four seeds crashing out before the quarter-final stage for the second consecutive year.
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