[A128]

What the hell happened

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ2ss...eature=related

[TenOfThem]

Ridiculous behaviour by Nalbandian ... made even worse by his comments afterwards

Surely he has an agent ... why was that person not there saying "just say sorry to the linesman, the crowd, and Cilic"

[jhuntley93]

piss poor i think, didnt help himself much either in the speech, 150 point lost and probably and even bigger fine from the comments. why did he not just say sorry and stop there. also could the 2 players have not agreed to play an exabition or something like that to keep the crowd happy

[A128]

I still dont get why he kicked that wooden board, is he too dumb to realise what the consequences would have been? did he not see the guy sitting directly behind it?!!

[f1mad]

What a right ****.

[f1mad]

(Original post by TenOfThem)

Surely he has an agent ... why was that person not there saying "just say sorry to the linesman, the crowd, and Cilic"

To be frank, you don't need an agent to tell you that. It is common sense and manners.

[Scoobiedoobiedo]

(Original post by Gabbar_Singh)
haha bro dis waz too sik innit, nalbandians a proppa legend yo

(Original post by f1mad)
What a right ****.

My thoughts exactly

[Marlo Stanfield]

Linesman made a meal out of it. Was acting like Nalbandian had shanked him.

[f1mad]

(Original post by Marlo Stanfield)
Linesman made a meal out of it. Was acting like Nalbandian had shanked him.

Let's see how you would've reacted, if it were you in the same incident.

[NaaderBajwa]

What were his comments after? I'm trying to sympathise with him, in the heat of the moment it's easy to do something stupid. I Don't think he should have been dq'd though... Having said that, I would expect him to have to pay a hefty fine, and make a nice gesture to official.

[Dorito]

I thought the whole thing was hilarious.

The way all the commentators creamed their knickers was great, the most exciting thing I've ever seen happen at tennis.

[original_username]

He kicked the first thing he could to let out his frustration, which was that stupid wooden thing (why's it there anyway), If that weren't there I doubt he would have kicked the bloke in the shins.

[minimarshmallow]

I was watching and thought it was disgusting. Yeah, we've all done stupid things because we were mad but I've never injured another person. How could he not see the person sat behind the board? He should have gone back to flinging his racket about or did what Djokovic did at the French and damaged a bench that didn't have a person near it!
And he totally made it worse for himself with that interview.

The crowd were also acting like children. I understand they've paid for their tickets and they wanted to watch tennis but if they wanted to boo they should have been booing Nalbandian, not the guys who are enforcing the rules. And continuing to boo over the guy as he was trying to tell them what was happening made me think they had a collective mental age of about 5!

Hope the line judge is okay though; it looked pretty bad but then he managed to (just about) walk off so I assume he's not too badly injured.

Edit: People negging me, can I ask you to quote me and say why you disagree please?

[TenOfThem]

(Original post by f1mad)
To be frank, you don't need an agent to tell you that. It is common sense and manners.

You would think so ... but clearly not in this case

[tomclarky]

If Andy Murray had done that in the Wimbledon final, would he have been disqualified?

I think the match should have played on but with Nalbadian receiving a retrospective fine afterwards.

[Hopple]

He should apologise to the guy he hurt, then tell the cowd he'd have happily played on if not for the umpire and rules.

[f1mad]

(Original post by tomclarky)
If Andy Murray had done that in the Wimbledon final, would he have been disqualified?

Obviously, he would've broke the code of conduct. You don't make special exemptions no matter who you are, that behaviour shouldn't (and isn't) tolerated.

[Hopple]

(Original post by f1mad)
Obviously, he would've broke the code of conduct. You don't make special exemptions no matter who you are, that behaviour shouldn't (and isn't) tolerated.

I think if that happened then they'd be forced to change the rules after the tournament. The line judge was fine, it only looked bad because he left it to bleed for ages.

[jaydemikaela]

(Original post by tomclarky)
If Andy Murray had done that in the Wimbledon final, would he have been disqualified?

I think the match should have played on but with Nalbadian receiving a retrospective fine afterwards.

[f1mad]

(Original post by Hopple)
I think if that happened then they'd be forced to change the rules after the tournament. The line judge was fine, it only looked bad because he left it to bleed for ages.

The extent of the injury, is not the sticking point:

Players shall not at any time physically abuse any official, opponent, spectator or other person within the precincts of the tournament site