Miyu Kato loses girls’s doubles cash for unintentionally hitting ball child however can play combined doubles

PARIS — French Open tennis participant Miyu Kato forfeited all of her about $23,000 in prize cash and rankings factors from girls’s doubles as a result of she unintentionally hit a ball lady within the neck with a ball after some extent throughout a match, however she is allowed to maintain taking part in combined doubles.

Kato’s companion in girls’s doubles, Aldila Sutjiadi of Indonesia, did acquired her cash and factors for reaching the third spherical in that competitors.

French Open match referee Remy Azemar made the rulings on penalties. Azemar determined that the ball child was hit inadvertently and Kato was permitted to proceed in combined doubles with Tim Pütz; they’re scheduled to play within the semifinals Thursday.

On Sunday, within the third spherical of girls’s doubles, Kato took a swing along with her racket and the ball flew towards the ball child, who was not wanting within the Japanese participant’s path whereas heading off the court docket.

At first, chair umpire Alexandre Juge solely issued a warning to Kato. But after Azemar and Grand Slam supervisor Wayne McEwen went to Court 14 to look into what occurred, Kato and Sutjiadi defaulted the match.