Houston scandal: He lost a game already given to him by the referee for the win

After the shocking success of Carlos Alcaraz at the Masters 1000 in Miami this week was quiet in the world of tennis. The 250 tournament in Marrakech and Houston was a smooth transition towards the clay court season that will begin with its featured tournaments next week in Monte Carlo, but they are also making waves.

Particularly the Houston tournament, where an unprecedented situation was experienced on Sunday. Dutch Gijs Brouwer and Canadian Steven Diez faced off in the qualifying match, with a match point at 6-4, 5-4 when the storm hit.

Diez deducted his rival’s serve by earning the winning passing that gave him the win. “Game, set and match” the linesman sang as the Canadian celebrated the victory on the net.

However, the game is far from over. Brouwer protested that his serve was bad and asked the judge to come down and look at the boat.

Even though the game is over, Amir Borghei decided to check out the action and saw that the ball bounced outso he repeated the point that surprised everyone.

As expected, that decision upset the Canadian’s nerves, that is fell and ended in defeat in the second set 7-5 and the third 6-2.

“Hello everyone. First of all, before you guys read this, I want to make it clear that I have nothing against the chair umpire, I think and I really hope that he did his best in my match. But something happened to me. which is very hard to describe in words.In the video you can see how I won the match using a passing shot that my opponent was clearly trying to catch, and even turned his head to see the ball pass. After celebrating and when I was about to shake hands with my opponent, the chair umpire decided to check the mark when the match was clearly over and it was too late to mark the ball. That was his first big mistake”He wrote on social networks.

“The second mistake is its marking the ball literally one meter from the actual mark. Third mistake: he asked the line judge if he saw the mark? The linesman clearly points out the equivalent, and despite this he keeps his wrong mark. Fourth mistake: it tells me that my opponent doesn’t want to serve and volley and that he doesn’t want to play point; actually, he stopped the point after serving. And the fifth mistake, and the most important: the chair umpire says ‘game, set and match’. Where do I want to go here? Because many times we don’t see an umpire paying for his mistakes, and on the other hand, when a tennis player doesn’t do his job well, he flies home with no points and less money in his pockets. pocket, “he continued.

However, karma wants to have a detail Ten, who achieved his classification for the final draw after Jaume Munar’s last-minute withdrawal. This way, the Canadian will make his tournament debut this Tuesday against Australian Jordan Thompson.