{"id":11966,"date":"2026-05-29T19:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=11966"},"modified":"2026-05-29T19:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T19:57:28","slug":"tennis-star-rafael-jodar-speaks-out-after-claims-he-pushed-ball-girl-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?p=11966","title":{"rendered":"Tennis star Rafael Jodar speaks out after claims he pushed ball girl at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img width=\"646\" height=\"434\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b.png?w=646\" class=\"article-image wp-image-28572999\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Jodar insisted he did not push her, suggesting she may have tripped on the court cover.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Spanish tennis player Rafael Jodar has denied pushing a ball girl out of his way during his match at the French Open.<\/p>\n<p>Jodar booked his place in the fourth round of Roland Garros with victory over American Alex Michelsen on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Between sets, footage shared on social media showed the 19-year-old walking off the court when a ball girl appeared to accidentally step across his path while trying to move out of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Jodar was seen gesturing to someone in his box, later clarifying that to be his father, as he passed the girl.<\/p>\n<p>Jodar denied pushing the volunteer, suggesting she may have got her feel tangled in the court cover.<\/p>\n<p>Initial footage that appeared on social media caused fury among tennis fans. However, a separate clip suggested the ball girl may have indeed tripped back on the court cover just as Jodar was raising his hand towards his father.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I didn\u2019t touch her,\u2019 he said. \u2018No, no, no. I could never do that.\u2019<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-x wp-block-embed-x\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"es\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\udea8 Este video se est\u00e1 haciendo viral, pero NO ES LO QUE PARECE.<\/p>\n<p>En ning\u00fan momento Rafael J\u00f3dar empuja a la ball girl.<\/p>\n<p>La chica se tropieza sola con la lona.<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q9Ci4I0XUi\">pic.twitter.com\/q9Ci4I0XUi<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/1mqAiVCzoJ<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tiempo De Tenis (@Tiempodetenis1) May 29, 2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He continued: \u2018I didn\u2019t push her or anything. I was telling my dad to give me the things that he was going to give me after a toilet break when I was coming back.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018She was in the middle, so I think she was trying to get out of the way. She was going backwards, but I think she, like, fell, but not because I push(ed) her.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u2018It [the court cover] was right behind her. So when she was walking backwards, she fell with that.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018I appreciate all the work that the ball kids are doing. I know it\u2019s difficult with the heat and the conditions to stay there, so I appreciate. I could never, you know, push a ball kid.\u2019<\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><title>Comment now<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/> Tennis star Rafael Jodar speaks out after claims he pushed ball girl at French Open<br \/>\n<br \/>#Tennis #star #Rafael #Jodar #speaks #claims #pushed #ball #girl #French #Open<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jodar insisted he did not push her, suggesting she may have tripped on the court&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11967,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9289,418,5058,2644,9376,587,6254,4084,493,541,6954],"class_list":["post-11966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ball","tag-claims","tag-french","tag-girl","tag-jodar","tag-open","tag-pushed","tag-rafael","tag-speaks","tag-star","tag-tennis"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482.png",1200,630,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482-150x150.png",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482-300x158.png",300,158,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482-768x403.png",640,336,true],"large":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482-1024x538.png",640,336,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482.png",1200,630,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482.png",1200,630,false],"covernews-featured":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482-1024x538.png",1024,538,true],"covernews-medium":["https:\/\/news678.top\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jodae-ball-girl-1e4b_1780083482-540x340.png",540,340,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"admin","author_link":"https:\/\/news678.top\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/news678.top\/?cat=6\" rel=\"category\">Sports<\/a>","tag_info":"Sports","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news678.top\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}