lineswoman
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lineswomen
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Open for inadvertently hitting a lineswoman with a ball struck in frustration.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 12, 2021
Nadal and Federer both missed the tournament, and Djokovic defaulted from his fourth-round match after hitting a lineswoman with a ball.
From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
Djokovic memorably was defaulted from that tournament in the fourth round after angrily hitting a ball that struck a lineswoman in the throat.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 21, 2021
Open were done this way, but the two biggest courts retained the human element - and Djokovic was disqualified after smacking a ball that inadvertently struck a lineswoman in the throat.
From Washington Times ● Feb. 6, 2021
Five years later, Williams got into an ugly confrontation with a lineswoman who called her for a foot fault—a very rare infraction—at a crucial moment in her semifinal match against Kim Clijsters.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2018
The female officials who ran the line in the 1991 Women's World Cup were dubbed "lineswomen" but unlike their male counterparts, they had no Fifa tournament badges to describe their status.
From BBC ● Jul. 14, 2023
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