Tag: Time Violation

We had a big controversy recently with Nadal asking for an umpire (Bernardes) not to officiate anymore his matches. The request came after some “quarrels” between the King of Clay and Carlos. The last one was after Bernardes gave a penalty to Rafa for a...

Terrible stuff on tour. Carlos Bernardes was the last official  to challenge Rafael Nadal for time-wasting. The rule is that players shouldn’t take more than 25 seconds in between point and we all know that Rafa goes much beyond this limit. Unfortunately according...

Rafael Nadal is definitely one of the most exciting players in tennis history, but there is something that is really failing: the amount of time he spends in between services. Interesting enough most of the umpires are scared to call these time violations, but one:...

The shot-clock is one of the innovative rules introduced by the IPTL  and probably the “most reasonable one”. There has been a long debate about Nadal and Djokovic taking far too much time between points. This is a hot issue for 2 reasons: first it...

Roger Federer is criticizing again his tennis nemesis Rafael Nadal for time violation. Roger: We may lose viewers because we play too slow …. "I just think it's important that we, as players, play up to speed and don't exceed the time limit, because what I...

After being warned at time taken between points in his match at Rotterdam against Grigor Dimitrov, Dimitry Tursunov has a few words to say about the whole situation to umpire Cedric Mourier

Dmitry Tursunov wasn’t a happy guy in Rotterdam. During his match against his dear friend Grigor Dimitrov, the Russian had a time violation warning from the chair umpire Cedric Maurier. Dmitry was quite furious to ask why they do not apply the same rule to Rafa...

Roger Federer didn’t have any problem at losing to Rafael Nadal in Melbourne (well… he should be rather used by now), but he rightly said that the time violation rule is not applied …. According to the rule. Roger wonders why after 33 matches they...

Rafael Nadal had to battle with many things in his match against Nishikori. First the Japanese was playing at his best, second Nadal’s blisters on his left hand, third the umpire that was picking on him for time violations. Apparently the feeling between Rafa and...

Gael Monfils has an argument with the umpire regarding a warning for time abuse on his match against Philipp Kohlschreiber, in Doha