Tennis player wired for sound
2008-07-24 09:30
Wellington - An eight-year-old girl was ejected from a junior tennis tournament at Christchurch on New Zealand's South Island when officials discovered she was wearing a radio earpiece to receive instructions from her father.
Tournament referee Rob Wilkinson said officials became suspicious because the match involving Ukranian-born Anastasiya Korzh featured a "heightened number of questioned calls."
Officials found the earpiece hidden under the girl's headband, linked by a cord to a receiver under her shirt, The Press newspaper reported on Thursday.
Korzh's father said the earpiece was only being used to help the girl keep score in the under-10 tournament.
She was playing in her first tournament.
- SAPA