Serbian tennis champion Novak Djokovic apologized Sunday evening after he was disqualified from the U.S. Open for unwittingly hitting a ball in the direction of an official, which subsequently struck her in the neck and caused her to fall to her knees.
“The whole situation has left me really sad and empty. I checked on the linesperson and the tournament told me that thank God she is feeling ok. I’m extremely sorry to have caused her such stress. So unintended. So wrong,” said Djokovic in an Instagram post, in which he declined to reveal the name of the official for her own privacy.
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