On the marker of Manolo Santana Stadium of the Magic Box A 6-4 and 2-2 favorable to your interests. As a context of the moment, a long fifth game of the second set, still without solving after twelve minutes of combat between both semifinalists.
Between one and another breakage saved to Argentine Francisco Cerú, an unexpected fact. Sudden Casper Ruud He stopped his drawing and went straight to the chair judge, the Italian Manuel Messina.
The patience of the Scandinavian was exhausting, he uploaded to the referee that there was someone who whistled from the stands when he was about to take out, bothered him. There were also people shouting. Among the fans were a good number of Argentine followers, as in previous days with Cerú.
“How many times can you do it before I can demand something? You tell me that I take care of myself, but I am asking you a specific question: how many seconds before I can demand, ask, another serve or repeat the serve, if you do it again and again,” Ruud claimed.
The chair judge raised that there is no specific rule that allows us to repeat a serve, but “I will announce that they do not shout between serves,” he told him Ruud.
This one, somewhat mosqueado, remembered Aryna Sabalenka. “What happened to Sabalenka with the rain of the other day?” “They are completely different situations,” said the referee. Ruud referred to Sabalenka got the game to argue that he could not get in normal conditions because the rain bothered her. He did it in the second serve. When the game was suspended, when he returned, he had a first service again, which angered his rival, the Ukrainian Marta Kostyuk.
It was hard to calm Ruud with the theme, in which he influenced after winning the game. “I know you do the best you can, but say ‘please, don’t do it again’ it’s not enough. Some fans are too loud.”
Ruud wanted them to give him a first repetition. “If I did, they wouldn’t do it again. You would simply cut it immediately. I know it’s hard for Francisco because he did nothing. But the fan is encouraging him. If you give me a first serve, he won’t do it again. So there would be no problem.”
Manuel Messina He did not accept this thesis based on the fact that he does not appear in the regulation, he did ask for megafonía silence when the players were taking out. And he assured Ruud, already as an extreme measure, that “if someone does it on purpose, we can send to security or expel it. I heard it a couple of times, but we cannot get into the minds of the people and know if it will do it again,” Messina stressed.
Ruud, normally cold, ended up tempered. Helped to end up defeating Francisco closing it 6-4 and 7-5. This Sunday will play the final, at 6:30 p.m., against the British Jack Draper or the Italian Lorenzo Musetti.
