We waited patiently yesterday to find out what action the authorities - the WTA Tour, the ITF, the tournament organisers - would take against Yuri Sharapov after he made a throat-slitting gesture towards the court after his daughter's brilliant victory over world No.1 Justine Henin on Tuesday night.
Substantial fine? Banishment from his centre-court seat? Face full of capsicum spray? Name your poison.
Sharapov's belligerence, captured by a camera he knew was in his face, belongs in a professional wrestling ring, not beside a tennis court. Even the American NFL, the world's most violent football code, banned the throat-slashing gesture - which some players had called "the OJ" - eight years ago.
This was one of those clear-cut incidents when there was no alternative but to act.
When the verdict was delivered we found out. Is that one lump of sugar or two, Mr Sharapov?
You see, it was all just one big misunderstanding. What we thought was a violent gesture, the WTA Tour reported, was actually just an in-joke about Sharapov's hooded sweatshirt, which his daughter thought made him look like an assassin.
And, if you didn't believe that, there was an alternative official version. It wasn't throat-slitting but the film director's signal for "cut". As in game over. It's a wrap.
This guy's a moron!
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