Tennis
While watching the Henman-Rusedski game on Tuesday night at the Dubai Tennis Championships, I was shocked by the behavior of some members of the crowd. I'm not talking about the usual annoyances of mobile phones and hecklers, for what I witnessed was a lot more cruel.

There was an overweight ball boy about eight years old who was working on one of the court's baselines. On a number of occasions, when he ran to collect a stray ball from the middle of the court, the crowd heckled him with comments like "come on, fatty!", "run faster!" or just laughed at him. I cannot imagine how humiliated that boy must have felt, or what his parents must have felt if they were in the crowd.

Shame on all of you. This was a nervous young boy, standing next to his tennis heroes in front of 3,000 people, and none of you stopped to think about how you must have made him feel. I guess none of you have children his age or remember what it was like to be his age.

On behalf of the little boy who couldn't defend himself last night against the people heckling him, I wanted to tell you that what you did was incredibly cruel, and you should all be ashamed of yourselves.