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SCAN SPORT - Mats Rosenkranz was disqualified from his game for taking a shower during a break to change clothes, an action prohibited by the ATP ranking.
A Professional Tennis Player On The ATP Tour Was Disqualified After Taking A 10 Second Shower During His Toilet Break, Despite Winning The First Set
Listen, I saw this and immediately thought that there's just no possible way that this has ever happened before. Surely a professional athlete knows the rules defined in their sport, especially regard...
On 13 August, a player took a shower between two rounds. He was disqualified as he led to the score.
An ace, a right, a reverse, a volée or a short ball. A tennis game can be decided by any technical gesture, but also by a shower. Literally. It happened in Crete during the eighth finals of the Challenger of Chersonissos, a city north of the island, under a burning heat and a humidity rate above 70%. In the field there were the German tennis player Mats Rosenkranz, 26 years and number 358 of the world and the blue Pietro Orlando Fellin, 24 years…
He was enjoying the feeling of saving two set points in the second round of the challenger in Crete and taking the first set 7:5. However, he was also bothered by the extreme heat that tennis players experience on the Greek island. German Mats Rosenkranz took advantage of the short break between sets to jump into the shower. But when he returned to the court, he found that he would not play anymore.
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