Novak Djokovic will be dealt with this Tuesday at third round of the Shanghai Masters 1000 to Flavio Cobolli. But the truth is that history could have been very different otherwise a fatal mistake by chair umpire Carlos Bernardes which ended up having an enormous weight in the resolution of the second round match between the Italian and Stan Wawrinka. Cobolli won 6-7(6), 7-6(4) and 6-3.
With a tie at one set, Cobolli took a 1-0 lead into the third and final set. Wawrinka earned the first point of his service game with a great first serve. BernardesHowever, pending notification to the organization regarding a match-related aspect, He didn’t add the point to the scoreboard.
The players ignored this and continued to play, with a second point where Cobolli caught Stan climbing the net. when is that? Bernardes realized that two game points were in dispute and not one and that’s when the error came: instead of putting the score at 15-15, the Brazilian judge he put it 0-30.
Neither player got into the situation, both continued to play and, At 15-40 (when in reality it should have been 30-30), Cobolli broke Wawrinka’s serve to go up 2-0, in what was the only break of the match.. The Swiss never recovered a serve that he did not lose, but thus counted on the scoreboard.
It helped Cobolli qualify for the third round. Here this Tuesday he will be the rival of Novak Djokovic in one of the final round matches in Shanghai. This will be the first time the Italian, number 30 in the world at the age of twenty-two, and the Serbian will meet.
Source: La Verdad
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