SHANGHAI — Australian tennis participant Marc Polmans has apologized for hitting a ball into the face of the chair umpire right through ultimate spherical qualifying on the Shanghai Masters, which resulted in him being straight away disqualified.

Polmans, ranked a hundred and fortieth, had fit level in opposition to Italy’s Stefano Napolitano in the second one prepared on Tuesday when he neglected a volley and later strike the ball in enrage because it bounced again from the online. His errant strike narrowly neglected the ball particular person ahead of hitting chair umpire Ben Anderson within the face. Anderson used to be it sounds as if no longer significantly injured.

“An update from me – the umpire, Ben, has accepted my apology for my actions,” Polmans posted on social media platform X. “He knows it was unintentional, and I shanked the ball on the frame in frustration in the heat of the moment.

“We each go on. It used to be a high-pressure condition and I must have reacted higher.”

The Australian joins Denis Shapovalov, Novak Djokovic and previous British participant Tim Henman as gamers to be disqualified from tournaments later hitting a fit legit or ball particular person with a ball.

Polmans may be prepared to forfeit any prize cash and score issues picked up right through the qualifying event.