Three years ago today, during the 2020 US Open and one of the strangest years in modern times, probably one of the craziest TENNIS situations occurred.
What’s also crazy is how close it was to not happening at ALL.
Overwhelming title favourite Novak Djokovic became the subject of Tennis’s 3rd match *default* in a Major event, after he accidentally hit a lineswoman in the throat with a tennis ball, during an undoubtedly regrettable moment of (understandable) frustration.
What makes it even crazier was the score situation, it NEARLY never happened:
- Djokovic was up 0-40 on Carreno Busta’s serve at *4-5 in the first set, with Pablo hitting an incredible forehand winner to save one of the set points which was ONE MILIMETRE IN (shown in the first pic)!
- If Pablo misses that forehand, Djokovic wins the set 6-4 and almost certainly wins the match, having a 2-0 H2H previously with PCB.
- Instead, Pablo saves all three set points, and breaks Novak’s serve for *6-5 in the first set, leading to Djokovic’s frustration, and his subsequent default
One of those ‘what the hell just happened?’ Tennis moments.
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Three years ago today, during the 2020 US Open and one of the strangest years in modern times, probably one of the craziest TENNIS situations occurred.
What’s also crazy is how close it was to not happening at ALL.
Overwhelming title favourite Novak Djokovic became the subject of Tennis’s 3rd match *default* in a Major event, after he accidentally hit a lineswoman in the throat with a tennis ball, during an undoubtedly regrettable moment of (understandable) frustration.
What makes it even crazier was the score situation, it NEARLY never happened:
- Djokovic was up 0-40 on Carreno Busta’s serve at *4-5 in the first set, with Pablo hitting an incredible forehand winner to save one of the set points which was ONE MILIMETRE IN (shown in the first pic)!
- If Pablo misses that forehand, Djokovic wins the set 6-4 and almost certainly wins the match, having a 2-0 H2H previously with PCB.
- Instead, Pablo saves all three set points, and breaks Novak’s serve for *6-5 in the first set, leading to Djokovic’s frustration, and his subsequent default
One of those ‘what the hell just happened?’ Tennis moments.
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