At PMBC Group, we understand how much social media has taken the world by storm, many people are constantly updating their pages. Fans at sporting events are typically using smartphones to text their friends, check-in on Facebook, tweet about the score, and Instagram images of the event, but what about the athletes? One Ukrainian tennis player decided to take out his smartphone and snap a photo after the ref made a call he did not agree with.
This weekend at the French Open, professional tennis player Sergiy Stakhovsky of Ukraine, to many’s surprise, got out his smartphone to dispute a call. Stakhovsky took a picture of where his ball hit on the court to prove that the call was made with poor judgment. The players at the French Open play on a clay courts, which made it easy for him to show where the ball hit, especially with this close-up photograph.
Stakhovsky later tweeted the image, with the caption “Well…here’s what you asked for”. This is not the first time Stakhovsky has pulled a stunt like this before, and he is allegedly facing a fine for what he did.
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