By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Monday, July 17, 2023
Novak Djokovic can pay the worth for hammering his Head racquet off the online put up throughout his dramatic five-set loss to Carlos Alcaraz within the Wimbledon ultimate.
The seven-time Wimbledon champion was hit with $8,000 in fines for smashing his stick off the aspect of the online put up. Djokovic erupted in anger after dropping serve within the third recreation of the fifth set of his 1-6, 7-6(6), 6-1, 3-6, 6-4 epic defeat to the world No. 1.
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Think about that Djokovic collected a finalist verify of £1,175,000, which is about $1.53 million, and it is unlikely he’ll miss that 8K an excessive amount of, although he did hear it from some Centre Courtroom followers displeased with the destruction and assault on the web put up.
Earlier within the match, Djokovic was hit with a time violation warning.
Seeing his Wimbledon reign slip away, Djokovic misplaced his grip and snapped with the smash.
Requested concerning the racquet abuse code violation afterward, Djokovic mentioned it was fueled from pure frustration.
“There is no a lot to speak about that. Second one was frustration,” Djokovic advised the media. “I had break factors within the second recreation. Yeah, simply robust, robust couple of factors.
“He performed superb to interrupt my serve, which was sufficient to win the fifth. The primary one was the time violation, so yeah. Not a fantastic second once more, however you simply type of have to just accept it.”
The 23-time Grand Slam champion knew the effective was coming as chair umpire Fergus Murphy reminded each gamers in the course of the coin toss that grass is a “delicate floor” and warned each gamers in the event that they tossed their racquets, it might be known as.
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It was the second straight match Djokovic clashed with the chair umpire.
Within the second set of his semifinal victory over Jannik Sinner, Djokovic was hit a questionable hindrance name by chair umpire Richard Haigh for his grunt. In that case, Djokovic briefly protested with an “are you joking?” response.
“The hindrance [call] may have modified the course of the match,” Djokovic mentioned afterward. “I felt actually nervous, most likely the primary time in my profession one thing like this has occurred.”
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