Wimbledon star fumes over ball kid - 'I just destroy him and hit him with the racket'

Jaume Munar was livid after a ball kid inadvertently interfered with a point during his third-round Wimbledon defeat. Munar lost to Marin Cilic in four sets on Saturday, and the seemingly cramped conditions on Court 18 did not allow him to patrol the very back of the court without the ball kid getting in the way.

During one point, with Cilic serving to go 4-2 up in the fourth set, Munar scrambled to collect a shot out wide and made contact with a ball kid just before hitting an attempted lob which landed out. Immediately afterwards, he angrily approached the chair umpire and asked for something to do be done.

"He [the ball kid] cannot move?" he asked. After the umpire informed him that nothing could be done so long as he was in his assigned position, Munar carried on: "So if I'm running and I hit him, I hit him and that's it? And we carry on? That's it? Not let, nothing? I just destroy him and that's it? I hit him with the racket [during the last point]!"

The ball kid, having been put in an awkward situation, only had four more games to stay out of Munar's way as Cilic won 6-3 3-6 6-2 6-4. The Croatian veteran is now through to the last 16, having also beaten Britain's fourth seed Jack Draper in round two.

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