Andy Murray has been punished by the ATP for his late withdrawal from Indianapolis last week, Murray has been forced to count 0 points from the tournament instead of his 5th best optional.

The punishment will apply for the next 12 months, effectively losing him 75 points, and given that he gains a greater proportion of his total points from optional events than most, this is likely to be a major blow for the Scot.

The 21-year-old withdrew from Indianapolis for the purpose of "recharging his batteries", the ATP did not consider that a valid reason.

So thats zero points for one of his best of 5 tournaments in the rankings and the race.

He'll probably appeal,though. Now I'll have to redo the spreadsheet.

When has he done it before? Also, do you have a link to some article about this, besides the actual  rankings sheet on the ATP site?

I doubt that would count. Its probably only if you withdraw when you were on the entry list when you get penalised. I actually think you don't need twice to get punished - once i was looking around on the net about late withdrawals, and read about cases where its happened, and I never saw anything about it being only for second offence.

Not good.  

From memory, I think most players who have been penalised have appealed, some successful, some not. Don't ask me who, because I don't remember the details.

"reason" would be better than "excuse" on the front page.

"excuse" kinda implies that we, like the ATP, think it's just a pretext.