かばんの大きすぎるロゴで罰金１１０万円　全米ＯＰ

【ニューヨークＡＦＰ＝時事】全米テニス協会（ＵＳＴＡ）は５日、全米オープンでコートに持ち込んだバッグのロゴが大きすぎたとして、ライリー・オペルカ（米国）に今大会最高額の罰金１万ドル（約１１０万円）を科した。（写真は男子テニスのライリー・オペルカ）
　６日の４回戦でロイド・ハリス（南アフリカ）と対戦する大会第２２シードのオペルカは、「未承認の」かばんを持ち込んだとして処分された。
　罰金を知らされたオペルカは自身のツイッターアカウントに、「今年の全米オープンはチケット販売に苦戦しているに違いない。ピンク色のバッグで１万ドルなんて。イケてるかばんなのに」と投稿した。
　オペルカは四大大会（グランドスラム）で自身初の１６強入りを果たしており、１回戦での罰金を工面することはできる。
　オペルカは「全米ＯＰがそんなことするなんてどういう冗談なんだ。ピンク色のバッグで１万ドル？頼むよ」と書き込んだが、罰金の対象となったのはかばんの色ではなくロゴのサイズだった。
　審判の判断で実際にロゴのサイズを測ると大きすぎたと明かしたオペルカは、手違いで大きいロゴのかばんを持ち込んだと弁明し、 「厳しすぎるし少しやりすぎだと思う。自分の仕事はロゴのサイズを測ることではない。全く違う。自分の仕事は試合に勝つことだ。そんなことを心配するより大事なことがある」と不満を示した。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】
〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2021/09/06-17:08）

American Reilly Opelka has incurred the biggest fine so far at the US Open, paying $10,000 for logos on his equipment bag that were too large.
The 22nd seed, who faces South African Lloyd Harris in a fourth-round match on Monday, was fined by the US Tennis Association for an unapproved bag.
US Open ticket sales must be strugglin this year 10k for a pink bag, at least it looked fly, Opelka tweeted after learning of the fine.
Opelka will have the funds to pay for his first-round violation. He's into the last 16 at a Grand Slam event for the first time.
What a joke on the US Open to do that. 10K for a pink bag? C'mon, Opelka said, even though the fine related to the logo size rather than the color of the bag.
The head referee was telling me you should have come in and had this thing measured. I actually thought it was a different bag. We had that logo specifically made. We measured. It is too big.
It was not the same bag I was using at the French Open. We made the effort to make it smaller. There was a mistake in production, I think, because in Europe with the conversion, with what was allowed.
But I made the effort. The referee told me that it was too big and that was it. She said to cover one side of it.
He referenced a comment made by compatriot Taylor Fritz.
I snapped a racquet over my knee, didn't get fined a dollar, and you bring a pink bag and got fined 10 grand. What a joke, Opelka said.
I thought it was a bit harsh, a bit excessive. My job is not to measure logos. It is just not. My job is to win matches. I have bigger things to worry about.
For the referee to tell me it's my job to measure a logo, no, clearly not. It's his job.
Opelka noted trims to the upper level prize money to add more for players in lower rounds.
Our prize money has been decreased for over a year and a half now but our fines have been increased, he said. I don't want to point fingers out on other players, not trying to throw anyone under the bus, but there have been people that have gotten away with a lot worse with a lot less of a fine.