Rafa Jodar denies pushing Roland Garros ball girl after court incident

Rafa Jodar has denied pushing or touching a ball girl at Roland Garros after being questioned about a video from one of his matches in Paris. The 19-year-old Spaniard said the ball girl slipped on a court cover while moving backwards and insisted he had made no contact with her.

Rafa Jodar denies pushing Roland Garros ball girl after court incident. Rafa Jodar has denied pushing or touching a ball girl at Roland Garros after being questioned about a video from one of his matches in Paris. The 19-year-old Spaniard said the ball girl slipped on a court cover while moving backwards and insisted he had made no contact with her. Jodar was asked directly about the incident after his Roland Garros match, with the question put to him that he had pushed a ball girl while leaving the court. Jodar rejected that version of events and said he did not push the ball girl during the incident. He said the incident happened after either the second or third set, when he was returning from a toilet break and communicating with his father. Jodar said the ball girl was in the middle of the area and appeared to be trying to move out of...