Sorribes Tormo comments after default incident with ball girl at Roland Garros: "We saw the ball kids was crying, it’s the only thing we said to the umpire"

Sara Sorribes Tormo shared her opinion on the ball kid incident during the doubles match at the French Open involving Marie Bouzkova and Miyu Kato.

A strange situation occurred at Roland Garros during a third-round women's doubles match. The duo of Sara Sorribes Tormo and Marie Bouzkova defeated Miyu Kato and Aldila Sutjiadi.

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The Japanese player, Kato, accidentally hit one of the ball kids while returning the balls to the opponents. The umpire issued a warning to the player while the young ball kid was crying and being consoled by Kato.

Sorribes Tormo and Bouzkova approached the umpire to demand the opponents' disqualification. After the umpire agreed and eliminated the opposing team, the Spanish and Czech players laughed about the situation.

“What happened yesterday was a bad situation. It’s tough to see the comments. We saw the ball kids was crying, it’s the only thing we said to the umpire. And that’s it. I have nothing else to say.”

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Miyu Kato & Aldila Sutjiadi were disqualified from their Roland Garros doubles match Kato hit a ball boy in the chest, but wasn’t hitting the ball in anger. The ball boy was crying They were initially only given a warning, but were eventually defaulted

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