ROME: Top-ranked Novak Djokovic shouted at the umpire before regaining his cool to see out his rain-delayed second-round match against Taylor Fritz at the Italian Open on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila). He added: “I asked you three times and you are not checking anything.”Djokovic, who has won the Italian Open five times, went on to beat the American 6-3, 7-6 (5). “I was stressed out in the end obviously but I think it was the right call to stop the match,” Djokovic said. Fritz held his service game after the resumption to force the tiebreaker but Djokovic closed out the win on his first match point. “It was a very strange match with strange conditions,” Djokovic said.

Source: Manila Times May 12, 2021 16:12 UTC