Novak Djokovic repeatedly bounced the ball to serve in the Wimbledon final with the Carlos Alcaraz. This is one of his characteristics. He took a maximum of 25 seconds to serve and put the ball in play.
Take advantage of the fact that there is no clock running for the second serve to delay the action. It was slow, which stopped the fight with Carlos Alcaraz.
‘Tiebreak’ of the second set. With 5-4 Alcaraz, the chair umpire, the Irishman fergus murphy sing the ‘babala’ (warning) to Djokovic for exceeding the service time. A withering look from the Serbian to the referee, but no more.
In Alcaraz recovering after a nerve-wracking start, dominating the game and the score (1-6, 7-6, 3-1), mess of Djokovic with the chair manager, verbally admonishing him in private, warning him that he was in danger of losing first the serve and then the point if he continued to delay the delivery.
“If the ball boy is not allowed to bring me the towel… I have to take the towel, and you start the time,” complained the Serb, asking the referee to start the countdown from 25″ with the towel down. , not when he went to get it.
The referee standard sends to press the chronometer 25″.
Djokovic was hurt even more to lose the fifth game, for 4-1 Alcaraz. In 26 minutes of the ‘game’.
Source: La Verdad
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