Having a smashing time

OVER 350,000 people have logged on to YouTube to see Marcos Baghdatis’ spectacular bout of racket rage.

Baghdatis went out of the Australian Open in a late match on Thursday morning (Irish time) in a fashion that will be long remembered.

Down two sets and a break, Baghdatis sat in his chair at the changeover and smashed his racket on the court seven times until it was almost unrecognisable. That wasn’t so unusual — but what happened next was.