List of tennis violations
This is a list of tennis violations that have occurred by professional tennis players in tournaments.
When a player violates a rule or does not follow the tennis code of conduct, the umpire or tournament official can issue one of the following:
- Warnings
- Losing a point
- Losing a game
- Disqualification
Code of Conduct
According to the 1987 Tennis Code of Conduct, if a player assesses $7,500 in fines in a 12-month period, they will automatically be fined an additional $10,000. The third penalty would carry a fine and a four-month suspension. A sixth-month suspension would follow after that.[1]
Selected period violation summary
The New York Times compiled a list of fines received by gender between 1998-2018 at the four major tennis grand slam tournaments.[2]
| Fine | Men | Women |
|---|---|---|
| Racket Abuse | 646 | 99 |
| Audible Obscenity | 344 | 140 |
| Unsportsmanlike Conduct | 287 | 67 |
| Coaching | 87 | 152 |
| Ball Abuse | 50 | 35 |
| Verbal Abuse | 62 | 16 |
| Visible Obscenity | 20 | 11 |
| No Press | 6 | 10 |
| Time Violations | 7 | 3 |
| Best Effort | 2 | 0 |
| Default | 3 | 0 |
| Doubles Attire | 2 | 1 |
| Late for Match | 1 | 1 |
| First round Retirement | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 1519 | 535 |
List of violations
| Date | Offender | Opponent | Tournament | Violation | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov. 4, 1984 | John McEnroe | Anders Jarryd | Stockholm Open | Fined $2,100 for unsportsmanlike conduct[3] | ||||||
| Nov. 6, 1984 | John McEnroe | Mats Wilander | Stockholm Open | Assessed a warning for verbal abuse. After the tournament, the Men's International Professional Tennis Council suspended McEnroe 42 days for misconduct[3] | ||||||
| 1987 | John McEnroe | Penalized for ball abuse, and fined $350[1] | ||||||||
| 1987 | John McEnroe | Slobodan Živojinović | US Open | After a series of arguments with the chair umpire that included penalties for unsportsmanlike behavior, verbal abuse, and language directed at a spectator,[1] McEnroe was fined $17,500 and suspended for two months[4] | ||||||
| Jan., 1990 | John McEnroe | Mikael Pernfors | Australian Open | Disqualified in his fourth-round match against Pernfors for three code violations.[5] McEnroe received a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct (intimidating a lineswoman), a second warning for racquet abuse, and was disqualified after verbally abusing the chair umpire Gerry Armstrong. | ||||||
| Aug., 1990 | Andre Agassi | Petr Korda | US Open | Called chair umpire a "son of a bitch" and spit on him. Agassi was assessed a penalty point, which was later rescinded as the spit was considered accidental. Agassi was still fined $3,000[6] | ||||||
| 1995 | Jeff Tarango | Alexander Mronz | Wimbledon | Telling spectators to "shut up" earned a violation, and a second one after he called the chair umpire the "most corrupt official in the game". Tarango was fined 28,000 pounds and banned from the tournament the following year[7] | ||||||
| 1995 | Tim Henman / Jeremy Bates | Jeff Tarango / Henrik Holm | Wimbledon | Both were disqualified after Henman hit a ball girl with a ball.[8] | ||||||
| 1996 | Irina Spîrlea | Disqualified for abusive language directed at an official.[9] | ||||||||
| Sep., 1996 | Pete Sampras | Àlex Corretja | US Open | Time violation for vomiting court side during the match[10] | ||||||
| Aug., 1996 | Andre Agassi | Daniel Nestor | Indianapolis | Disqualified for ball abuse and verbal abuse[11] | ||||||
| Oct., 1998 | John McEnroe | Mikael Pernfors | Sydney Seniors | Received a warning for verbal abuse[12] | ||||||
| Nov., 1998 | Pete Sampras | Marcelo Ríos | ATP Tour World Championships | Received a warning for shouting an obscenity[13] | ||||||
| 2000 | Marcelo Ríos | Gouichi Motomura | Mercedes-Benz Cup, Los Angeles | Disqualified and subsequently fined US$5,000 for yelling "Fuck you!" to the chair umpire[14] | ||||||
| 2007 | Anastasia Rodionova | Angelique Kerber | Cincinnati Masters | Disqualified for hitting a ball at spectators cheering Kerber[15] | ||||||
| 2009 | Serena Williams | Kim Clijsters | US Open | Received a foot fault and subsequently argued with a linesperson, which led to a code violation and a point penalty while she was a match point down, thus ending the match. | ||||||
| 2011 | Serena Williams | Sam Stosur | US Open | Received a code violation for verbal abuse after chair umpire Eva Asderaki warned her for hindrance. She was on probation for the 2009 offense at the same tournament.[16] | 2009 Roger Federer was fined $1,500 for outburst against umpire Jake Garner in row about time taken to challenge by his opponent Juan Martin Del Potro who went on to win the match. | 2012 | David Nalbandian | Marin Čilić | Queen's Final | Disqualified for injuring an official after kicking an advertising board. |
| 2014 | Darian King | Edward Corrie | Charlottesville Challenger | Disqualified after throwing racquet and hitting a lineswoman[18] | ||||||
| 2016 | Grigor Dimitrov | Diego Schwartzman | Istanbul Open | Smashed racquet three times, resulting in a warning, a point penalty, and another point penalty[19] | ||||||
| 2017 | Denis Shapovalov | Kyle Edmund | 2017 Davis Cup World Group | Disqualified after hitting the chair umpire with a ball hit in anger[20] | ||||||
| Jul., 2018 | Yann Marti | Adrian Bodmer | Swiss Open | Disqualified after pointing racquet at Severin Lüthi and saying to him: "You can put that in your butt"[21] | ||||||
| Aug., 2018 | Alizé Cornet | Johanna Larsson | US Open | Received a warning by changing her shirt mid-match | ||||||
| Sep., 2018 | Serena Williams | Naomi Osaka | US Open Final | Fined $17,000[22] for arguing against chair umpire Carlos Ramos for code offenses involving coaching and a racket slam, and impugning umpire's integrity.[23] | ||||||
| 2019 | Nick Kyrgios | Casper Ruud | Italian Open | Defaulted for a number of building offenses through the match, including ball abuse, offensive language directed at spectators, racket slamming, and tossing a folding fabric stool onto the court; because of the default, Kyrgios was fined €33,635, lost all earned ATP points for the tourney, along with having to pay the ATP for his accommodations.[24] | ||||||
| Jun 30, 2019 | Serena Williams | Wimbledon | Fined $10,000 for damaging a Wimbledon practice court with her racquet[25] | |||||||
| July 8, 2019 | Fabio Fognini | Wimbledon | Fined $3,000 for saying he wished “a bomb would explode at the club”. [26] | |||||||
| Aug., 2019 | Nick Kyrgios | Karen Khachanov | Cincinnati Masters | Fined $113,000 after his meltdown, which included persistent abuse of an umpire, breaking his racquets and leaving the court. [27] | ||||||
| Sep 1, 2019 | Mike Bryan | Federico Delobis / Roberto Carballes | US Open | Fined $10,000 for pointing his racquet at an official, imitating shooting a rifle.[28] | ||||||
| Sep 8, 2019 | Rafael Nadal | Daniil Medvedev | US Open | Time violation | ||||||
| Feb 2, 2020 | Novak Djokovic | Dominic Thiem | Australian Open | Time violation | January 2020, Roger Federer was fined $3,000 for audible obscenity against his opponent Tenys Sandgren in their quarter final match at the Australian Open. Federer received a code violation when a line judge reported him to the umpire, Marijana Veljovic.
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