It was not a good Monday on the job for Darian King. He was down 6-4, 6-all (5-2) to Edward Corrie at the Challenger tournament in Charlottesville, Virginia, and he had just lost a hotly contested point that ended with an inside-out forehand winner off his opponent's racquet. Then King lost it. He lost it just before he was about to lose the match itself.
King slammed his racquet against the tarp wall behind him at Boar's Head Sports Club, and it ricocheted off and struck a line judge in the back (or the neck, leading to much speculation among those who viewed the clip as to the status of the injury). Regardless, serving as a line judge is a largely thankless task—and she reacted instantly, going all the way down to the ground on her side before a fellow line judge and others came to her aid. Here's the footage: