2023-06-05 18:10:00
Francisco Cerúndolo raised his arms a little and looked over at chair umpire Kader Nouni – expecting that he had noticed the ball bouncing twice and consequently awarded him the point.
Only: The referee had not seen the so-called “double bounce” and therefore believed the ball was still in play. The result: The Hindrance Rule, defined somewhat vaguely as an obstacle to the opponent during an ongoing rally, took effect because, from Nouni’s point of view, Cerúndolo had spoken to him during the game.
Nouni gave Rune the point. The 20-year-old Dane also got the next rally and thus made the break to 3: 1 in the third set.
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“I saw the ball clearly in slow motion. There is no question that it bounced twice,” says Eurosport expert Boris Becker. “Cerúndolo saw that and stopped. I think it was a wrong decision once morest Cerúndolo.”
Twice as bitter for Cerúndolo: A ball child had already run onto the field at the scene, so Nouni might have had the rally repeated. But the point was gone.
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Cerúndolo no longer understood the world. “I’ll make sure you get punished for that,” the 24-year-old hurled at the French chair umpire, who is considered one of the most renowned on the tour.
But mightn’t Rune have noticed and even admitted the double bounce? “The player noticed that 100 percent, the question is: do you admit it? There are professionals who do it and others who don’t. But it’s the referee’s job, because he made the mistake here, not the player,” emphasizes Becker.
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