‘Umpire Needs Sacking’- Novak Djokovic Gets Fervent Backing as Daniil Medvedev’s Atrocious Vienna Open Act Leaves Fans Fuming

The 27-year-old Russian tennis player must be having the luck of the Irish. Daniil Medvedev missed an imminent disqualification by almost a whisker on October 25 at the Vienna Open. However, it didn’t happen. Eventually, he went on to win the match against Arthur Fils by a comfortable margin (6-4,6-2) in the Round of 32. But the Novak Djokovic fans aren’t happy at all with the officials of the match. Let us find out why.

After suffering a devastating loss in the second round of Shanghai Open, Daniil Medvedev came to Vienna to get back his winning momentum. Although he was never in trouble throughout the match when the ball was in the court. But he came very close to disqualification when the ball flew off his racket outside the court into the stands. Fans out-bursted their emotions on the different treatment of world number 3 to world number 1 in the past too.

Fans go nuts on the umpires, for their treatment to Daniil Medvedev

Several fans raged their anger and emotions drawing the comparison of this scenario to Djokovic’s disqualification three years back. Angry fans of the world number one fume over the horrendous act of the Russian after accidentally hitting the ball into one of the spectators in the crowd. During one of the service games of Arthur Fils, Daniil Medvedev failed to return a ball and it got bounced off the guard wall. Medvedev then hit the ball which was out of play onto the face of the spectator. He immediately apologized to her. But Djokovic’s fans expected much more out of that, especially after seeing their idol treated differently during US Open 2020. Here’s what they say.

One fan said it was a clear default. He pointed out that Nole was disqualified for a similar incident of a smaller magnitude in the US Open in the past.

The other one acknowledged and said it was a nail on default. No more discussions.

Some of them weren’t happy with the double standards in the US Open.

While others went a little further and called for the sacking of the umpire.

Few of them, however, admitted it was completely unintentional. But he also reminded Djokovic’s similar incident of hitting the ball which was out of play.

The fans have not yet digested Novak Djokovic’s exit from the US Open on September 7, 2020 to Pablo Carreno Busta. Surely it was a shocking exit resulting from an unfortunate incident. No wonder why his fans keep dragging it from the past.

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The source of rage against Daniil Medvedev incident lies in the United States

Novak Djokovic’s exit from the US Open was the biggest headline during the US Open that year. The current world number one was trailing(5-6) Pablo Carreno of Spain when that unexpected exit happened. In that Round of 16 match, Djokovic tried to hit a stray ball out of rage into the empty stands. But accidentally it hit a line judge on the throat. The match was immediately called off after a discussion with the tournament referee, player, and the chair umpire. They declared Carreno as the winner and Djokovic had to lose the prize money as well as the ranking points he had earned during that tournament.

Even Novak Djokovic has issued an apology for that time both on and off the court. However, it wasn’t considered that time. He was punished under Case Section T of Article III in the 2020 Grand Slam rule book. Fans are now digging up past incidents to call a reference to this incident which happened recently. It’s quite true to be frustrated over what fans seem to be a partiality towards their favorite player. What do you think?

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