The referees have a busy Asian tour. Carlos Alcarazusually quiet, was one of the first to raise his voice, at the ATP 500 tournament in Beijing. “This is not tennis, it’s a hundred-meter dash race,” he complained to the chair umpire after being penalized twice. In the second with the consequence of losing the first serve. A third would be the point.
Other teammates showed less courage at the Shanghai ATP Masters 1000. In the American Frances Tiafoe His nerves crossed after suffering the same penalty as Alcaraz, albeit at 5-5 in the final tiebreak of the third set.
Alexander Zverev with him Mohamed Lahyani the entire match, pointing out that the referees are influencing tennis too much with their latest errors. Stefanos Tsitsipas He got into a fight with the chair umpire in the match Daniel Medvedev: “You have no idea about tennis!”
Complaints also came Novak Djokovic. In his debut against Alex Michelsen he received a ‘warning’ for exceeding the 25″ established to serve. A situation that repeated itself. “It was out of my hands,” Lahyani told him then.
His fight with the Spaniards Nacho Forcadellwho directed their round of 16 match in Shanghai against the Romain Safiullinis longer in time. Djokovic managed to control himself a bit, sometimes more angry. Perhaps because he had just broken, he dominated the match 6-3 and 4-1.
The Catalan referee was attentive, checking Djokovic’s need to complain. This attitude and the result helped the Serbian’s explanations, as well as his questions, to be passed in a good tone.
Balkan emphasized the need to have more time to serve after a previous breaking point, when in addition – he emphasized – now the ball boys should hand over the towel to the tennis player, who is not taking it from the locker. “The ball boys did everything they could, but they weren’t practicing. We’ve been picking up towels for four years,” he explained. Djokovic.
The crux of the matter is that referees used to direct when the 25-second countdown started, and now it’s activated automatically. It is not very clear how, although the players are not clear either.
Djokovic asked Forcadell when the season starts. “In the grass season,” said the Barcelonan. “I know it’s not up to you, but I don’t understand that it can be changed in the middle of the season and without notifying the players,” said a ‘Nole who insisted he had not been notified.
“ATP?” he asked. “Yes,” replied Forcadell. Djokovic only played on the grass tour Wimbledonthere is no ATP citation where the test of the automatic device begins.
“I understand that they want to speed up the pace of matches, but it can’t be changed in the middle of the season. It’s unbelievable,” Djokovic said.
He is firm but remains calm. Forcadell He had to deal with a compromising situation, waiting for the dialogue not to catch fire. Far away. With Djokovic not moving in his seat, taking advantage of the break, and the referee standing firmly in his seat.
Source: La Verdad
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