Thanks God it wasn’t Serena! The American got completely mad when at the US Open a lines judge called just one foot fault (ok… that was in a very important moment of the match) to threaten her of whatever… We can’t imagine Serena’s reaction in case they would have call 11 foot faults in a single match!
Ivo was really mad to go a bit too far questioning Wimbledon integrity.
“In my whole life, ever since I was eight years old, I didn’t do this many foot faults.
“It was never called when it was 30-0 or 40-0, it was always when it was 30-30 or in a tie-break. I mean, what is this? Is it Davis Cup or is it Wimbledon? After this match, the whole credibility of this tournament went down for me.
“After I don’t know how many, I stood a little bit back so they could not call it and they still did. It was outrageous. It’s Wimbledon, Centre Court, and they do this. I feel cheated.”
“Right now I’m angry about it, because I don’t expect it here. Even though it is against the English (sic) guy who they always want to win, I don’t expect it here.”
Murray tried to be diplomatic on the issue
“That’s very tough to question the integrity of Wimbledon, I would have thought. It’s got a lot of history, a lot of tradition. There’s been hundreds of thousands of matches played here over the years. I’ve never heard that before.
“But I need to see the videos. If there were 11 foot faults called against him and every one was incorrect, then that’s completely wrong and unfair.
“But for it to happen that many times, you would think there would have been a number of fairly obvious foot faults, because you don’t really see them called that much nowadays.
“If it turns out that he wasn’t foot-faulting, if I was him, I’d be very, very disappointed.”
Murray said: “Any match you just want to try to find a way to win, it’s not always about how you play. But today you can’t judge necessarily how well you struck the ball or any stroke in particular.
“You need to show good patience, mental strength. I think I did a good job of that today because I got off to a bad start and then I broke straightaway.
“Then after losing that tight second set, to get that break at the beginning of the third was important. So I did a good job.”
