Carlos Alcaraz, full scandal with the chair referee. Demands change at ATP: “The rules are shit”
Carlos Alcaraz, 22, and the current ATP ranking leader, was visibly unhappy with the chair umpire's decisions in his Doha match with 29-year-old world number 16 Karen Khachanov.
Carlos Alcaraz and chair umpire Photo/Capture X @bIuezoya
The row erupted when the Spaniard was controversially penalized for exceeding the time-out after a set-piece in which he ran towards the net to retrieve a ball, challenging the chair umpire.
“How long did you stop the timer? I'm not allowed to go for the towel. What do I have to do next time? It's always the same, very unfair. The ATP rules are shit!“Alcaraz protested, according to puntodebreak.com.
Carlos Alcaraz called for a change in the rules of tennis
Carlos Alcaraz reached the semifinals of the Doha tournament for the first time in his career.
“The time rule is absurd. I made a point that I finished at the net with a sprint. I went to the towel and I had no time left. He told me he stopped the timer, but what he said to me was absurd. Even the audience kept shouting and cheering. I looked at it with three or four seconds left because I couldn't hit the ball. And he gave me a warning.
I try to adapt and I know that I have to respect the time, and often that means not doing my normal routine: I go faster, I hit the ball less times when I see that I am in a time crunch.
Tennis is a show, and when we complain or the ATP complains that they need to attract more audiences, if we are not allowed between points to recover as well as possible to then put on a maximum show, then we will win little, because we will attract less people to watch tennis!“said Carlos Alcaraz, according to marca.com.
Rublev, scared by the duel with Alcaraz in the semifinals
In the quarters in Doha, Carlos Alcaraz defeated Karen Khachanov 6-7, 6-4, 6-3 after a match that lasted two hours and 28 minutes, and will face Andrey Rublev in the semifinals. The match is scheduled today, from 18:30.
“Of course, it will be a difficult match, what more can be said? It will be a challenge for me to see where I stand compared to their level. Against Alcaraz and Sinner, there are always moments where I don't know how to react, I just try to do my best!”admitted Andrey Rublev, about the semifinal with Alcaraz, for Tennis Temple.
