By AP
July 25th 2008 @ 7:37am


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Officials find young tennis player wired for sound

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 Ukrainian-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 today.

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.


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