Verdasco: 'I was not rude to the ball boy'

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/t...-boy-Fernando-Verdasco-defends-towel-row.html

Through history all players do things like that,' said Verdasco, whose hair trigger temper was on show at the Rolex Paris Masters on Wednesday when he received a warning for an audible obscenity against a line judge.
'Obviously I didn't mean to be like that,' he said of the ball boy episode. 'But I think with social media there are certain people who sometimes speak too much. I received many messages telling me to apologise – it looks like I did something really wrong to the guy, when it was my way of telling him was that we have 24 seconds (between points).
It was superhumid and the kid was obviously not understanding English when I was asking for a towel. When you finish the point at the net, what you cannot do is go running every point to get your towel if you only have twenty seconds rest after a long rally.
'Of course I understand, and I apologise to all the people who took it so wrong, but it never was my intention to be rude, I just wanted to tell him to be ready to help me, be a little bit faster.
'It looked like I hit the ball boy, I punch him in the face or I tell him something so rude, but I was just talking fast. Obviously my reaction with the arms was the thing that looked so bad but it was never my intention to be rude or disrespectful.
I love ball boys, I always tell them thank you when they help me over fifteen years of my career and maybe one time when I did a bad gesture everyone was killing me.'
think that the ball boys are on the court to try to help the players. Taking out the ball boys to give you the towel or give you the balls is something that is ridiculous, I think that they are happy to help,' he said.
Obviously the player is the one who has the pressure sometimes and maybe they have bad reactions, but I am sure that any of the players, men's and women's, when we have a bad reaction with the ball boy, it's never with a bad intention, it's just because we have a lot of pressure, we have only 24 or 25 seconds.
'Sometimes I get warnings because I am not ready when I go to get the towel really fast to take my sweat off because it's really humid conditions, like it was at US Open or Shenzhen, and you need someone to help you to get your sweat off. I think that they are happy to help, and we are so happy that they help us, so I think that taking this away is something very bad.'

 

[Apun94]

We really shouldnt be that quick to judge players. A lot of things are done in the heat of the moment. That is not a reflection of the player though.
It's ok. He apologised and acknowledged his mistake. Time to move on

 

[NaomiKonjuhPotapova]

Ugh come on, he point to the towel, ball boy has like 1 second and grab the towel, running with a little step and Verdasco telling him to speed up.

"It was superhumid and the kid was obviously not understanding English when I was asking for a towel. When you finish the point at the net, what you cannot do is go running every point to get your towel if you only have twenty seconds rest after a long rally." He's not on the net.
"but it never was my intention to be rude, I just wanted to tell him to be ready to help me, be a little bit faster." No, it's never anyone intention to be rude, you just being rude.

Thank God the ATP Next Gen thing didn't require the ball kids to handing over the towels.

 

[Aussie Darcy]

Grab the towel yourself Verdasco and keep quiet.

 

[Im(moral) Winner]

Do not believe in Fiasco's lies

 

[Kaznkul]

Grab the towel yourself Verdasco and keep quiet.

Exactly! Have to agree with Kyrgios on this one, verdasco is just one “salty dude” not that Kyrgios is any better.... as in treating ball kids wrongly. Tanking.... well that’s another story


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