{"id":399679,"date":"2024-06-03T21:49:41","date_gmt":"2024-06-03T21:49:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399679"},"modified":"2024-06-03T23:07:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-03T23:07:14","slug":"you-cant-do-that-bizarre-call-almost-derailed-demon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=399679","title":{"rendered":"'You can't do that': Bizarre call almost derailed Demon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur<\/a> became the first Aussie man to reach the quarter-finals in Paris in 20 years with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 victory over Daniil Medvedev<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But he certainly didn't have it all his own way at Roland-Garros on Monday night.<\/p>\n

The Australian rallied to win in four sets after losing the first 4-6 to the Russian.<\/p>\n

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De Minaur found himself on the back foot when Medvedev paused in the middle of a point the Aussie had won, to claim the previous shot was out.<\/p>\n

The umpire left her chair to check the mark on the clay, and agreed with Medvedev that de Minaur's previous shot had gone long.<\/p>\n

\"Alex<\/p>\n

But the Aussie protested given he had played his winning shot before Medvedev signalled the out ball.<\/p>\n

Australian tennis great Todd Woodbridge agreed the umpire got it wrong.\ufeff<\/p>\n

"Alex had already hit the shot, he played the next ball," Woodbridge said on Nine's broadcast.<\/p>\n

"You do see Medvedev look down and try and see the mark, and whether to stop or not.<\/p>\n

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"It's a tough one on the umpire she's looking both ways also.<\/p>\n

"But that's not right (from Medvedev). You can't do that.\ufeff"<\/p>\n

Despite the odds weighed against him after losing the first set, the Aussie did not let that sway his mental focus like he may have done in the past.<\/p>\n

\"De<\/p>\n

In the end the terrible weather at Roland-Garros produced a surprisingly positive outcome for de Minaur.<\/p>\n

It turned him into a clay court believer.<\/p>\n

"Looks like I've converted myself into a clay specialist," De Minaur said, laughing.<\/p>\n

He reached the last eight against his own expectations, during a tournament hit by five consecutive days of rain delays and scheduling chaos at Roland-Garros.<\/p>\n

Standing in his path to a first major semi-final will be either world No.4 Alexander Zverev or No.13 Holger Rune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Alex de Minaur became the first Aussie man to reach the quarter-finals in Paris in 20 years with a 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, 6-3 victory over […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":399683,"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\/399679"}],"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=399679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":399687,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/399679\/revisions\/399687"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/399683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=399679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=399679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=399679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}