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Former U.S. Open champion Andy Murray was raging around the end of his first-round misfortune to No. 3 seed Stefanos Tsitsipas on Monday and well a short time later over what he saw as an unscrupulously long washroom break before the definitive fifth set. Tsitsipas likewise took a clinical break subsequent to losing the third set to Murray to have the coaches take a gander at a foot injury.
Following the washroom break, which checked in at around eight minutes, Tsitsipas broke Murray’s serve and hung on for a possible 2-6, 7-6 (9-7), 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 triumph. Murray whined boisterously about it to the seat umpire all through the fifth set and offered a frigid handshake at the net after match point.
Even subsequent to chilling off momentarily in the storage space, Murray didn’t stop for a second to dump on Tsitsipas’ strategies.
“It’s just disappointing because I feel it influenced the outcome of the match,” Murray said. “I’m not saying I necessarily win that match, for sure, but it had an influence on what was happening after those breaks,” he said.
“I think he’s a brilliant player. I think he’s great for the game. But I have zero time for that stuff at all, and I lost respect for him,” he added.
Andy Murray, who is 34 years of age and endeavoring to return subsequent to having significant hip surgery in 2019, said he realizes his remarks could be understood as acrid grapes yet said he’d have come into the question and answer session saying exactly the same thing on the off chance that he’d won. What’s more, he’s by all accounts not the only player to go on with Tsitsipas’ extensive outings to the washroom after sets.
Indeed, at the Western and Southern Open in Cincinnati less than about fourteen days prior, Alexander Zverev blamed Tsitsipas during their elimination round counterpart for taking his phone into the bathroom subsequent to losing the first set and messaging with his mentor and father Apostolos, which isn’t permitted on the ATP Tour.
Alexander Zverev had no proof that Tsitsipas defied any norms, however at any rate, the long bathroom breaks can be seen as an endeavor to disturb momentum or baffle an adversary and Tsitsipas has gained notoriety for mishandling that escape clause.
Murray said the issue isn’t enjoying the reprieves however the measure of time Tsitsipas was off the court, which permitted his body to chill off and harden up prior to going right once more into the match. He could be heard on the court saying that Tsitsipas was cheating by taking such a long time.
“He knows. The other players know. The fact that I was talking to my team about it before the match, we knew it was coming,” he said.
“You could argue that I shouldn’t let that affect me. But genuinely it is difficult, like, when you’re playing such a brutal match in those conditions to have those breaks. Physically you can’t stop that from affecting you. Mentally, yes, but physically you can’t,” he added.
Utilizing washroom breaks and superfluous medical breaks as a strategic ploy has for quite some time been a theme on a visit, however, it’s muddled what the tennis visits ought to do about this is on the grounds that there are clearly circumstances where players need to leave the court and either get treatment, utilize the bathroom or rapidly change into dry garments.
“If people don’t care enough about it to change, then that’s fine. I’ll speak to my team about it. I’ll listen to what, I don’t know, fans, players, and everything are saying about it. Maybe I’m being unreasonable.” Murray said.
“Maybe I’m overreacting to something because I lost the match. But, yeah, right now sitting here I feel like it’s nonsense and they need to make a change because it’s not good for the sport, it’s not good for TV, it’s not good for fans,” he concluded.
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