Then in a display of guile and maturity he crafted a way to win. Maybe it was the treatment for a stomach complaint kicking in but
Plainly unwell and physically struggling Nadal, who was regularly bent over on his racquet as the game stretched on, needed a lengthy medical time-out at the end of that fourth set before returning to find something when it mattered and halt the momentum of the young Canadian. For two sets Shapovalov said more than he did on court. Then he shut up and said a whole lot more with his tennis. He began the game angry and ended it slamming his racquet into the court.Rafael Nadal and Denis Shapovalov talk at the net.Shapovalov began the game wound up and frustrated. He argued with the chair umpire and gave all chair umpires for that matter a drive-by when he told the chair “you are all corrupt”.
After the second outburst and exchange with the umpire, Nadal ran to the net to mollify the Canadian who was cranky with everyone but himself. Everyone and everything else seemed to be to blame for the way he was playing.
SMHsport Frankly an insult to all the suffering in this country to use the word courage to describe anyone playing a ridiculous sport hitting a ball over a net.
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