Explosive moment angry tennis star brands umpire ‘the worst I’ve EVER seen’ after smashing his racquet in Wimbledon warm up – forcing supervisor to intervene
A tennis star who will be competing at Wimbledon had some choice words for the umpire at the Eastbourne Open on Friday after losing his cool during the quarter-finals.
Davidovich Fokina won the first set against Jakub Mensik and had just gone 5-4 down in the second when the incident occurred.
Fokina showed his frustration as he threw his racket to the floor following the conclusion of the game, which had put his opponent on the verge of levelling the match on sets.
The umpire wasn’t impressed and proceeded to hand him a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct.
The Spaniard couldn’t believe it, protesting that the punishment was undeserved.
He asked him to call the supervisor before saying that he didn’t accept that warning as the situation intensified.
Alejandro Davidovich recieved a warning for chucking his racket to the floor on Thursday
The umpire was not impressed and handed him what he thought was an obvious violation
Davidovich labelled the umpire the worst that he has ever seen during the exchange
It didn’t end there as he went on to tell the official that he was ‘the worst umpire I’ve ever seen’ and said ‘I don’t know how you sit there.’
Davidovich’s argument was that he threw the racket outside of the baseline and did so in a manner that wasn’t reckless.
The supervisor arrived and agreed with the umpire’s decision, saying: ‘it’s a grass court. We don’t do that on grass courts.’
Fortunately for Fokina he proceeded to win the the next game and the following two games to wrap up a 6-4, 7-5 victory and progress to the semi-finals.
He is now due to play American Taylor Fritz in the semi-final on the south coast ahead of Sunday’s final.
Davidovich Fokina has been ranked as the No26 seed for Wimbledon, which begins next Monday.
