NEW YORK—Alexander Zverev felt he had to react when he heard a fan use language from Adolf Hitler's Nazi regime during his US Open match. This wasn’t the type of heckling that players are prepared to face and trained to ignore. It highlighted a challenge faced by players and the US Open itself as…
This wasn’t the type of heckling that players are prepared to face and trained to ignore. It highlighted a challenge faced by players and the US Open itself as the event draws the biggest crowds in its history: making sure fans are engaged but not disrupting the tennis — and how to respond when they do.
Another fan was thrown out Tuesday when he screamed at a key moment during Novak Djokovic’s quarterfinal victory over Taylor Fritz, distracting the 23-time Grand Slam champion enough to cost him that point and then having screams directed back at him when Djokovic lost the next point, too. That made the ejection of the Zverev fan — who was not arrested — an easy decision. Same with throwing out two men last year when one was Less clear is a situation like the Djokovic fan, whose behavior is normal at a basketball or football game, where spectators don’t hold their applause until play has stopped.
“Everyone past 3 p.m. is drunk as hell, just having an unbelievable time,” Frances Tiafoe, a 2022 semifinalist, said before the tournament. “The ref has no shot at controlling that atmosphere.”Daniil Medvedev was aggravated by some cheering between his first and second serves, saying it was grounds for the fans’ removal. after her first-round loss to Coco Gauff, upset at what she felt was overly harsh treatment by the fans.
while playing to gauge the speed of the ball coming at them, with Azarenka recalling a match in Miami when she couldn’t.
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