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Tennis umpire Gabas has surgery after being hit in eye

Tennis umpire Gabas has surgery after being hit in eye | iNFOnews.ca
Umpire Arnaud Gabas of France holds his face after being hit by a ball during first round Davis Cup tennis action between Canada's Denis Shapovalov and Great Britain's Kyle Edmund, Sunday, Feb. 5, 2017 in Ottawa. Gabas has had surgery on a fractured bone under his left eye after being hit by a ball struck by Shapovalov during a Davis Cup match. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Justin Tang

LONDON – Tennis umpire Arnaud Gabas has had surgery on a fractured bone under his left eye after being hit by a ball struck by Canadian player Denis Shapovalov during a Davis Cup match.

The International Tennis Federation says “chair umpire Arnaud Gabas has undergone successful surgery in France to repair a fracture of the orbital bone under his left eye.”

The 17-year-old Shapovalov hit a ball in anger in the deciding match against Kyle Edmund of Britain on Feb. 5. He was immediately defaulted and fined $7,000 by the ITF.

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