{"id":304602,"date":"2023-06-06T05:29:45","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=304602"},"modified":"2023-06-06T05:58:31","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T05:58:31","slug":"unwritten-rule-broken-in-double-bounce-furore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=304602","title":{"rendered":"'Unwritten rule' broken in double-bounce furore"},"content":{"rendered":"

Holger Rune<\/a>'s failure to call a double-bounce on himself in his fourth round Roland-Garros<\/a> clash against Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo wasn't cheating, but was "unsportsmanlike", according to Aussie tennis legend Wally Masur<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With the match tied at a set apiece, on-serve and at deuce in the fourth game of the third set, Cerundolo played a skidding forehand that bounced for a second time a split second before Rune got his racquet to it.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Cerundolo apologised to Rune for the skidding ball. The umpire – having clearly not seen the second bounce, subsequently called for hindrance for talking in a point, handing the point to Rune.<\/p>\n

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Speaking on Stan Sports' Grand Slam Daily<\/em>, Masur said players usually follow an unwritten rule in those kind of situations.<\/p>\n

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"It's the umpire's call \u2026 (but) there's an unwritten rule that if the ball clips you, clips your racquet or a double-bounce, you call it on yourself – a bit like a batsman who snicks and walks," he said.<\/p>\n

The decision gave Rune the advantage, and he broke Cerundolo with the next point.<\/p>\n

"I wouldn't call it cheating, but it's not great sportsmanship and it obviously got under the skin of Cerundolo."<\/p>\n

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Following the match, Rune claimed he didn't realise the ball had bounced a second time until replays were shown on the big screen.<\/p>\n

"When I was hitting the ball, I didn't know \u2013 I just ran for it," he said.<\/p>\n

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"I saw it after the next point on the TV \u2026 but the point already happened and (the umpire) called the score."<\/p>\n

Usually once a chair umpire calls the score, the decision is final and the game must move on.<\/p>\n

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"I feel sorry for him \u2026 This is tennis. This is sports. Some umpires make mistakes. Some for me, some for him. That's life," Rune added.<\/p>\n

Rune went on to win the match 7-6 (3), 3-6, 6-4, 1-6, 7-6 (10-7), and will play Casper Ruud in the quarter-finals on Wednesday night (AEST).<\/p>\n

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Holger Rune's failure to call a double-bounce on himself in his fourth round Roland-Garros clash against Argentinian Francisco Cerundolo wasn't cheating, but was "unsportsmanlike", according […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":304519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=304602"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304606,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304602\/revisions\/304606"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/304519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=304602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=304602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=304602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}