Why a tennis player was disqualified for walking off court mid-match – and why he apologized

Welcome back to the Monday Tennis Briefing, where The Athletic will explain the stories behind the stories from the past week on court. This week, there was one of the strangest disqualifications in tennis history, the race to the ATP Tour Finals intensified and a player at the center of a storm broke new ground. If you’d like to follow our fantastic tennis coverage, click here. Why was a clay court the scene of the strangest default in recent times? When a player is disqualified from a tennis m