Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Felix Auger-Aliassime were embroiled in drama during their fourth round match at Wimbledon.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime ended up winning the match in five sets, but there was controversy during the fourth set between the Canadian and the Spaniard.<\/p>\n
Davidovich Fokina struggled with an ankle injury while he had two break points to take the set during the fourth set and he called the physio.<\/p>\n
After the physio, Auger-Aliassime hit a double fault to concede the fourth set to Davidovich Fokina and take the match to a decider.<\/p>\n
Auger-Aliassime was far from happy and called the moment a \u2018disgrace\u2019<\/a> in his post-match press conference, where he also called for a rule change.<\/p>\n \u201cBut to 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 said the Canadian in his post-match press conference. \u201cI don\u2019t see any other sport where you can do that. I mark my words. It\u2019s a disgrace of a rule.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n A day after crashing out of the Wimbledon fourth round, Davidovich Fokina has explained his side of the story, and confirming his injury status.<\/p>\n Iga Swiatek told she was \u2018not good emotionally\u2019 at Wimbledon by tennis icon<\/a><\/p>\n Novak Djokovic Wimbledon injury fear raised by former British No 1<\/a><\/p>\n In an interview with Movistar<\/a>, the Spaniard said: \u201cThis all started before Stuttgart, when I twisted my ankle training in Monte Carlo. It\u2019s something we\u2019re dealing with every day. I haven\u2019t even had time to rest for three consecutive days.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve had to deal with it, Voltaren every day\u2026 I\u2019m going to get an MRI now, but it was just one movement, when I slide and my foot rolls inwards, that\u2019s the only movement, that\u2019s what happened today.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t control some movements, so when my foot rolls like that, it\u2019s 30 or 40 seconds where I see stars, and then the pain goes away, I\u2019m pain-free. It\u2019s something I\u2019ll look into starting tomorrow.\u201d<\/p>\n Andy Roddick was less than convinced by Davidovich Fokina\u2019s injury<\/a>, so it appears it\u2019s going to be an ongoing argument over the legitimacy of the injury and the timing the physio was called.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime<\/a>, however, will have to try and rest his anger as he has one of the biggest matches of his career coming up.<\/p>\n The Canadian will play Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the quarter-finals of Wimbledon<\/a> as he looks to reach the semi-final of a Grand Slam for the third time in his career.<\/p>\n Auger-Aliassime has previously reached the semi-finals of the US Open<\/a> on two occasions, in 2021 and 2025, so a victory over Djokovic would be his first time in the final four of Wimbledon.<\/p>\n Prior to the 2026 event, Auger-Aliassime had previously reached the quarter-finals of Wimbledon in 2021, but he was beaten by Matteo Berrettini<\/a>.<\/p>\n The post Alejandro Davidovich Fokina breaks silence on Felix Auger-Aliassime controversy<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Alejandro Davidovich Fokina and Felix Auger-Aliassime were embroiled in drama during their fourth round match at Wimbledon. Auger-Aliassime ended up winning the match in five sets, but there was controversy during the fourth set between the Canadian and the Spaniard. Davidovich Fokina struggled with an ankle injury while he had two break points to take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2444\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Wimbledon news<\/h2>\n