Kazakh tennis player Aleksandar Bublik reached the finals of the tournament in Dubai after Andrei Rublev was disqualified.
Allegedly, the Russian swore at the linesman in his native language.
Rubljov and Bublik played an uncertain match.
The first set was won by the Russian tennis player 7:6, the second by the Kazakh by the same score, while in the third it was 6:5 for Bublik when the match was stopped.
Rublev then verbally attacked the linesman who then claimed that the player had insulted him.
In vain Rublev assured the supervisor that he spoke in English and did not use swear words.
The line judge stuck to his version and the fifth tennis player in the world was disqualified.
Bublik's rival in the fight for the title is the Frenchman Hugo Ember, who defeated Danilo Medvedev in two sets - 7:5, 6:3.
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