A male fan ran onto court to kiss Rafael Nadal after the Spanish tennis star’s victory against Gail Monfils at the US Open last Tuesday. The male fan, Noam U. Aorta of New York City, will be charged with trespassing and interfering with a sporting event and faces possible jail time.

Aorta ran onto court and proceeded to hug and kiss Nadal while the tennis star was changing his shirt at the sideline. Security personnel apprehended Aorta and escorted him away from Nadal.

The US Open officials already beefed-up the stadium security last Wednesday to prevent similar incidents from happening. The incident involving Rafael Nadal brought back memories of a crazed man stabbing Monica Seles during a tennis match in Germany in 1993.

Nadal, on the other hand, just laughed off the incident. The tennis star wrote in his blog: “To be honest, I didn’t see the guy coming. I’d just taken my shirt off to change it when I saw a guy coming to me, kissing me and saying that he loved me… Then I saw the security jumping to him. I didn’t think it was important, not serious, and tried to stop the security at some point to leave the guy. You can actually read my lips saying “it’s OK”. Not that I know a lot of English to explain to them that it was OK, that he was cool and that for me it was OK. Not that I liked the kiss…”

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