Britain qualify after Canadian hits umpire with ball
"It was a very strange way to finish the match," Edmund said.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – Britain reached the Davis Cup quarter-finals in bizarre circumstances on Sunday when Canada’s Denis Shapovalov defaulted for inadvertently blasting a ball into the umpire’s face.
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Wimbledon boys’ champion Shapovalov, 17, was two sets to love down against Kyle Edmund in the fifth and deciding rubber when he hammered the ball away in a fit of rage and it struck umpire Arnaud Gabas, who was unable to contiue.
"It was a very strange way to finish the match," Edmund was quoted as saying by the BBC.
