Novak cheated a point enroute to winning the title

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For all gamesmanship thingy raised in this forum, let me bring a stat, I guess most of the forum members who watched the match between Del Po and Djoko are aware of it, Djoko cheated a point and the momentum from Del Boy.

Del Po was up a set and a break in 2nd set, in the mid of the 2nd set Del Po played a great drop shot, and it double bounced just before it hit the racket of Djoko, Djoko should be clearly aware of it , yet he claimed the point, poor Del Po could do nothing than carry on with the game, a good sportsmanship would be to either concede the point or go to the umpire and explain that he is unsure whether the ball was double bounce or not, but rather he kept the point enroute to win and the title.

In my view it just shows Nole is desperate for win and wanted to win somehow rather than genuinely beat the opponents out with the skill, I remember the same country men Tipsy concede the point several times in his career to the opponent when the point didn't belong to him, hope in the future Djoko learns something from his close friend. At the end of the day Nole know his win is a bit tainted and didn't come 100% genuine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvaAaDVBBa8

Link added above , it clearly shows DP was furious that nobody accounted the double bounce.

laverfan wrote:
None of these players are saints, and never will be, no matter what their respective fans want them to be.

Yup Lf , and neither their respective fans want them to be saints but the fans of the respective player find different ways to critic the other players which in our forum [and the old BBC] is the main theme.

laverfan wrote:None of these players are saints, and never will be, no matter what their respective fans want them to be.

Exactly, I can't think of a single player who has never used gamesmanship.

carrieg4 wrote:

laverfan wrote:None of these players are saints, and never will be, no matter what their respective fans want them to be.

Exactly, I can't think of a single player who has never used gamesmanship.

Stefan Edberg?

JuliusHMarx wrote:

carrieg4 wrote:

laverfan wrote:None of these players are saints, and never will be, no matter what their respective fans want them to be.

Exactly, I can't think of a single player who has never used gamesmanship.

Stefan Edberg?

Not sure of it either, I haven't watched him play much since he was before my times, but I can say from mid 90's there is no one champ who you can the Gent version of Mother Teresa.

she was far from perfect!

LuvSports! wrote:she was far from perfect!

she? , do u hate SE that much?

not one of your best....

it was in reference to you saying 'the gent version of mother teresa'.

she was no saint!

invisiblecoolers wrote:Yes Del Po won the point, but Djoko clearly try to cheat the point.

You stated that he tried to "claim the point" which is clearly not true and your article gives the impression that he won it. Misleading.

Normally I would say that players know when it bounced twice, but it's so close we can't be absolutely sure. And I doubt this had any effect on the match.

Henman Bill wrote:

invisiblecoolers wrote:Yes Del Po won the point, but Djoko clearly try to cheat the point.

You stated that he tried to "claim the point" which is clearly not true and your article gives the impression that he won it. Misleading.

Normally I would say that players know when it bounced twice, but it's so close we can't be absolutely sure. And I doubt this had any effect on the match.

Well Djoko did try to claim the point coz he played it and had no courtesy to accept ot was double bounce when Del Po was arguing with Chair umpire.

Normally it would be so close but in this case it wasn't even close and from Djoko's angle and side angle it was way too clear it was double bounce and yet Djoko played and went back silently when poor DP questioning umpire regarding it.

At no point did Djoko try to claim the point! He played the ball because it was too late to pull out and about .25 seconds later Delpo had hit a winning volley.
It wasn't even that clear on TV, so probably wasn't clear to Djoko and even if it wasn't the point was over before he could have 'owned up'.

invisiblecoolers wrote:

laverfan wrote:
None of these players are saints, and never will be, no matter what their respective fans want them to be.

Yup Lf , and neither their respective fans want them to be saints but the fans of the respective player find different ways to critic the other players which in our forum [and the old BBC] is the main theme.

It is rather that Tennis fandom is so divisive. Wish it was not.