Tennis Player Freaks, Kicks Line Judge

David Nalbandian booted after making judge bleed
By Polly Davis Doig,  Newser Staff
Posted Jun 17, 2012 1:01 PM CDT

David Nalbandian was having a rough day on the court, so what's a poor professional tennis player to do but ... maybe kick an old man? That's pretty much what went down at London's Aegon Championship final today, with the Argentine kicking an advertising board into the line judge's shin after losing a point, causing the man to bleed, reports the BBC. Nalbandian, who was beating Marin Cilic at the time, was ejected from the tourney because of a pesky rule forbidding players from "physically (abusing) any official, opponent, spectator or other person." (More tennis stories.)

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