Ana Ivanovic docked points for going to the bathroom

I thought this was interesting. Tennis player Ana Ivanovic was docked points for going to the bathroom:

http://sports.yahoo.com/tennis/blog/busted_racquet/post/Ana-Ivanovic-loses-game-because-of-long-bathroom?urn=ten-277005

Notice that the camera follows her to the bathroom and waits outside the door. How embarrassing is that?

That does suck. I can kind of understand the umpire's judgement 'you should go in your own time' but if she's got an illness its something that we all know cant be helped. It looks like despite being docked points she did well personally.

I didn't see that match but am a tennis player who follows it on TV. Bathroom breaks have been abused by players unfortunately (mainly women-men use injury excuses) to break the rhythm of a game, to get coaching advice or even to annoy the other player. I even had it done to me by other players who were losing, took a loooong bathroom break and came back to win.

Tennis is one game where fitness, and that means overall health, counts towards winning. It may not be fair to UC people or people with flu symptoms or similar but thats life on the tennis court. There are rules about when you can take a bathroom break and how many times so it is allowed just not "immediately".