The Australian Open has published this Monday several curious figures about the tournament and one of them is the amount of fines that players must pay for committing several infractions during his matches in the tournament, in a list in which some of the most outstanding rackets of the circuit appear.
The champion of this peculiar classification has been the Australian Nick Kyrgios, who has been the tennis player who has received the most fines during the dispute of the tournament with a total sum of $ 9,000. Kyrgios was punished with $ 3,000 for racket abuse and another $ 3,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct during his second round match against Ugo Humbert. As if that were not enough, Kyrgios was added another $ 3,000 fine for visible obscenity during his third-round match with Thiem.
Daniil Medvedev also appears on this list, who will have to pay a fine of $ 5,000 for racket abuse in the final against Novak Djokovic. Djokovic himself has also been splattered by fines at this Australian Open since, like Medvedev, he will have to pay $ 5,000 to destroy his racket on the ground during his quarterfinal match with Alexander Zverev
Zverev is precisely the tennis player who takes the highest fine of the tournament for a racket abuse offense in his first round match that has cost him a $ 6,000 fine. The penalties for receiving help from the coaches during a match also appear on this sanctions list. Is what has happened to Stefanos Tsitsipas, who will have to pay a fine of $ 4,000 for coaching during his quarter-final match against Rafa Nadal. In total, in the men's category, the Australian Open has encrypted the sum of all fines in $ 58,500 after a total of 21 violations.
In the female category, only 7 fines have been recorded, of which one withdrew and another was reduced by half. The highest fine is the one imposed on the Czech Karolina Pliskova for racket abuse during her third-round match, for which she had to pay $ 3,000. In total, the amount amounted to 8,500 fines in the female box.