View at the outer tennis courts during Day 4 at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London on Thursday.Kin Cheung/The Associated Press
A 15-year-old German player was disqualified from Wimbledon’s junior tournament after she angrily threw her racquet on the grass and it bounced into the stands, the All England Club confirmed Sunday.
The incident involving Ida Wobker occurred toward the end of the second set of a girls’ singles first-round match on Saturday.
Romanian opponent Maria Valentina Pop had won the opening set 6-0 and it was 5-5 all in the second when Wobker missed a backhand long and lost her cool. She threw the racquet toward the court and it bounced up and into the few rows of stands lining Court 11.
It wasn’t clear if the racquet hit any spectators but Wobker walked over toward the stands and got her racquet back.
After a lengthy wait for a verdict from tournament officials, the chair umpire announced that Wobker was defaulted for unsportsmanlike conduct.
There is no prize money in the junior tournaments, so Wobker was not fined.