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‘Maybe he has a knife’: Yulia Putintseva asks for ‘crazy’ |
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Wimbledon spectator to be ejected over safety fears |
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By Matias Grez, CNN |
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7:12 AM EDT, Tue July 1, 2025 |
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World No. 33 Yulia Putintseva asked the umpire to eject a spectator |
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from her first-round match at over safety concerns, calling the |
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attendee “dangerous” and “crazy.” |
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Putintseva went on to lose 6-0, 6-0 to the USA’s Amanda Anisimova in |
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just 43 minutes and was visibly emotional while sitting down ahead of |
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the final game. |
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Trailing 0-3 in the first set on court 15, Putintseva reported the fan |
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to the umpire at the change of ends. |
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“Can you take him out? I’m not going to continue playing until he |
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leaves,” she was heard telling the umpire on the BBC broadcast. |
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“These people are dangerous, they’re crazy.” |
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After being asked by the umpire which fan it was, Putintseva gestured |
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to the stand behind where she was serving and said it was a spectator |
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wearing green. |
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The umpire then said he would phone security before getting down from |
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his chair to speak to two members of security staff who were courtside. |
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“Maybe he has a knife and he will attack after, I don’t know,” |
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Putintseva, who didn’t speak to the media after the match, said. |
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In a statement to TNT Sports, the organizers said: “Following a |
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complaint about the behaviour of a spectator at the match on court 15, |
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the chair umpire informed security and the matter was dealt with.” |
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has reached out to the All England Lawn Tennis Club for comment. |
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The incident comes after a man was ejected from the Dubai Tennis |
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Championships after displaying “fixated behavior” towards British |
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player in February. |
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The man followed Raducanu to at least four competitions earlier this |
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year, and on noticing him in Dubai, the British star she “couldn’t |
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see the ball through tears” due to her distress. |
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British media reported that the man had tried to obtain tickets to , |
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but was flagged and blocked by the All England Club’s security |
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system. Raducanu praised Wimbledon for doing an “amazing job” at |
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preventing the man accused of stalking her from buying tickets to the |
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tournament. |
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“Wimbledon and everyone did an amazing job. I got a notification, the |
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police contacted me and told me everything was OK,” Raducanu told |
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“I know that I am not the first athlete to go through this, and I |
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probably won’t be the last – not just as an athlete, but females in |
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general.” |
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