 "Watch: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina loses Wimbledon match in unusual fashion")
London: Alejandro Davidovich Fokina found an unusual way to lose a Grand Slam match. So unusual, he didn’t quite know the rule that did him in.
Spain’s Davidovich Fokina was given a point penalty by chair umpire Carlos Ramos for ball abuse and, because it came on match point, that ended the second-round contest against the Czech Republic’s Jiri Vesely at Wimbledon on Wednesday.
The final score was 6-3, 5-7, 6-7 (2), 6-3, 7-6 (10-7) in Vesely’s favor after nearly four hours of play at Court 17.
Davidovich Fokina had been cited for a different code violation earlier. When Ramos made the match-ending call, Davidovich Fokina questioned the ruling, saying his two citations were for different infractions.
davidovich fokina given point penalty match point down in the fifth set supertiebreak 🤦 pic.twitter.com/vAZgDP3O2u
— marxist-keninist (@tennisywilliams) June 29, 2022
Wimbledon 1R: Broken in 3rd at 40-0 when trying to serve it out v Hurkacz. Breaks to stay in it in the 5th, wins the 5th set TB.
— Ravi Ubha (@raviubha) June 29, 2022
Wimbledon 2R: Plays in another 5th set TB v Vesely. Match ends on point penalty after a second offence, ADF hitting the ball out of the court after point ended at 7-9 in the TB.
— Ravi Ubha (@raviubha) June 29, 2022
But that doesn’t matter: Two such violations during one match result in a point being awarded to the opponent. This one happened to come right after Davidovich Fokina missed a forehand to give Vesely a 9-7 edge in the first-to-10-points, win-by-two final-set tiebreaker.
So Davidovich Fokina, who eliminated seventh seed seed Hubert Hurkacz in another fifth-set tiebreaker in the first round Monday, is out of the men’s singles draw at Wimbledon.
Vesely moves on to face 30th-seeded Tommy Paul in the third round.
(with inputs from The Associated Press)
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