Tough life for ATP referees, after Tiafoe and Bodosa’s outbursts it’s Tsitsipas’ turn: “You have no idea what tennis is!”

John

By John

More controversies in tennis, more exuberance from tennis players. After the repeated “fuck you” addressed to the chair umpire during a match in the Shanghai tournament by the American Tiafoeand the most striking case of the Spanish flu Badosaaccused of racism towards orientals for having been photographed in China while using rice chopsticks to pretend to have almond-shaped eyes, and then ready to publicly apologize, breaking the tradition of fair play is the Greek Tsitsipas. «You have no idea what tennis is», is the sentence that, again in the ‘Rolex Shanghai Masters’, was addressed by the world number 12 to the chair umpire, during the match lost against the Russian Medvedev, who now will face Sinner. Tsitsipas had previously been sanctioned for not respecting serving times. “I’ve never seen other players penalized when they took longer than me,” added the Greek.