Alejandro Davidovich Fokina has come under fire from Andy Roddick for his behaviour during and after his fourth-round match against Felix Auger-Aliassime with the former world No 1 saying the Spaniard had no reason to be mad at his opponent.<\/p>\n
Third seed Auger-Aliassime<\/a> was on course to complete a four-set win on No.1 Court on Sunday as he was serving for the match at 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-3, 5-4, but his opponent appeared to roll his ankle and required treatment.<\/p>\n Once Davidovich Fokina returned after a lengthy break, the Canadian served a double fault and the set went to another tie-breaker, which the 22nd seed won, before Auger-Aliassime eventually saw it out for 6-7 (4-7), 7-6 (8-6), 6-7 (2-7), 6-1.<\/p>\n The Spaniard was clearly unhappy with the cold handshake from Auger-Aliassime after the match and got upset, although nothing serious happened.<\/p>\n During the post-match press conference, the Canadian stated that there should be a rule change<\/a> to avoid such drama, saying \u201cto stop in the middle of an opponent\u2019s service game and to be able to call the physio, I think that\u2019s a disgrace of a rule\u201d.<\/p>\n Novak Djokovic Wimbledon injury fear raised by former British No 1<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Alexander Zverev can \u2018definitely\u2019 win more Grand Slams as \u2018dangerous\u2019 Wimbledon warning sent<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n During the latest episode of Served with Andy Roddick podcast<\/a>, the American gave his take on the situation, saying: \u201cI want to get into the back and forth with him and Davidovich Fokina because that was a little weird. FAA, it takes a lot for him to get upset, he\u2019s one of the more even-keeled guys.<\/p>\n \u201cYou don\u2019t feel like he\u2019s one who likes to lash out, he was pretty forthright and pissed in his press conference and in my opinion is was rightfully so.<\/p>\n \u201cThere was something going on with his [Davidovich Fokina\u2019s] ankle. FAA serving out the match in the fourth set at 5-4, FAA hasn\u2019t been broken in the tournament yet at this stage, by the way, and then Davidovich-Fokina wins a point to go up 15-40 on FAA\u2019s serve, so middle of the game, he goes down again and I\u2019m like \u2018he might never walk again in his life\u2019. It was a lot, you don\u2019t know what someone is feeling.<\/p>\n \u201cThen he goes and gets treatment for maybe three minutes. FAA was in the middle of his service game for the match, 15-40. He comes back out and we in the green room going \u2018watch him double fault here, this is ridiculous, this is insane\u2019. Sure as s*** double and then Davidovich-Fokina was fine.<\/p>\n \u201cHe remembered to limp a little bit in between points, but if you do that and even if you are actually really hurt, which we don\u2019t know [as] it was a miraculous recovery, and you have completely iced someone in the most insane way and you win the set there is still a guilt mechanism a little bit.<\/p>\n \u201c[But] he\u2019s throwing two hands out up the crowd, doing the ear. I\u2019m going, \u2018oh my gosh, I would have\u2026\u2019 Whatever you think about how it went down, I would have lost it if I was FAA. There is no chance I would not have said something and to his credit he did not, and I was thinking he is the nicest person I have ever known.<\/p>\n \u201cFast forward and FAA wins in five, cruises up, doesn\u2019t say anything, gives him a hard handshake, kinda pumps him, at the net, but nothing horrible. It looked like Davidovich Fokina wanted to have a conversation, Felix pumped him and gave him a handshake shiver and walked on.<\/p>\n \u201cHe turns around so obviously something was said to him. I mean, there\u2019s no chance that Davidovich-Fokina can be p****** at FAA about anything he did.<\/p>\n \u201cListen, ankle hurts, miraculous recovery, let\u2019s say that\u2019s a possibility, there is still no chance that he can be mad. FAA did exactly zero wrong in this scenario and then to chirp at him when his back is turned and he is about to go and celebrate a win is bulls***.\u201d<\/p>\n The post Alejandro Davidovich Fokina \u2018remembered to limp\u2019 during heated Felix Auger-Aliassime match<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alejandro Davidovich Fokina has come under fire from Andy Roddick for his behaviour during and after his fourth-round match against Felix Auger-Aliassime with the former world No 1 saying the Spaniard had no reason to be mad at his opponent. 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