The ATP Tour introduced France’s Hugo Gaston was fined 144,000 euros (about $1,55,000) — greater than he’s collected in prize cash up to now in 2023 — for pulling a ball out of his pocket and throwing it on the court docket throughout some extent in an try and get a do-over, his fourth unsportsmanlike conduct violation this season.
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French tennis player Hugo Gaston was fined 1,44,000 euros (about $1,55,000) by the ATP Tour — greater than he is collected in prize cash up to now in 2023 — for pulling a ball out of his pocket and throwing it on the court docket throughout some extent in an try and get a do-over, his fourth unsportsmanlike conduct violation this season.
The tour introduced its ruling on Monday, saying that Gaston’s enchantment of the punishment received it lowered by half, to 72,000 euros (about $77,500), so long as he meets sure circumstances, together with no extra violations throughout a probationary interval of a yr.
The ATP stated unsportsmanlike conduct fines “increase by 100% with each consecutive violation in the same season.” Gaston has made somewhat greater than $1,20,000 in prize cash this yr whereas going 2-5 on tour. He is a 22-year-old left-hander who has been ranked as excessive as 58th and is at present 108th.
The fine was prompted by Gaston’s try and get the chair umpire to name off some extent and replay it throughout his 6-3, 6-3 loss to Borna Coric within the second spherical of the Madrid Open on April 28.
Last week, the French Tennis Federation awarded Gaston a wild-card entry into the French Open, which begins on Sunday. The greatest Grand Slam displaying of his profession got here at Roland Garros in 2020, when he reached the fourth spherical there. He made it to the third spherical in Paris a yr in the past.
