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SHANGHAI — Australian tennis player Marc Polmans has been defaulted from the final round of qualifying at the Shanghai Masters after hitting the ball into the face of the chair umpire.

That was an interesting moment," he explained. "For the umpire to come off her chair and have the referee and the supervisor on the court." Henman added: "Yeah there’ll potentially be a fine.