{"id":22376,"date":"2025-02-03T15:50:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:50:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/davis-cup-collision-chile-beat-belgium-as-cristian-garin-refuses-to-play-after-zizou-bergs-incident\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T15:50:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T15:50:05","slug":"davis-cup-collision-chile-beat-belgium-as-cristian-garin-refuses-to-play-after-zizou-bergs-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/davis-cup-collision-chile-beat-belgium-as-cristian-garin-refuses-to-play-after-zizou-bergs-incident\/","title":{"rendered":"Davis Cup collision: Chile beat Belgium as Cristian Garin refuses to play after Zizou Bergs incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Chile lost their Davis Cup qualifier against Belgium when Cristian Garin refused to continue playing after being knocked over by opponent Zizou Bergs.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">At a changeover during their singles match in Hasselt, a celebrating and leaping Bergs struck him in the face with his right shoulder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bergs apologised immediately and Garin was cleared to play after receiving medical attention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bergs was given a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct but Chile called for him to be disqualified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Garin was given three successive time violations for refusing to play, resulting in a game penalty to hand Berg a 6-3 4-6 7-5 victory and ensure Chile won the tie 3-1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c9w5npn981jo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chile lost their Davis Cup qualifier against Belgium when Cristian Garin refused to continue playing after being knocked over by opponent Zizou Bergs. At a changeover during their singles match in Hasselt, a celebrating and leaping Bergs struck him in the face with his right shoulder. Bergs apologised immediately and Garin was cleared to play [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22377,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latin-america"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22376"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22378,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22376\/revisions\/22378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}