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In the press conference, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, who defeated the young Danish Holger Rune at the end of a marathon of more than three hours, expressed all his satisfaction. Especially after the unsportsmanlike gesture of the young Dane.
On the central court of the Mutua Madrid Open, an episode gave an important turning point to the match, which brought the entire public to the side of the Iberian and the 20-year-old to be booed several times by the crowd.
The Spaniard contested a ball called in by Foxtenn, starting arguing with the chair umpire. Rune then decided to erase all traces of the sign.
Davidovich Fokina trolls Holger Rune: "Thanks, crowd was on my side!"
Of what happened, he said: "I don't want to say anything, Carlos Bernardes told me that the protocol is what it is.
That he had canceled the sign I realized, but they had already approved it so I didn't care. People were annoyed, and thanks to Rune's gesture people came to my side more. What I was saying to Bernardes is that he could come down and check on it and fix the call, even if the machine said it was good.
We all saw he was out." The victory achieved naturally gives the 23-year-old a lot of confidence in his home tournament: "I've never had the thrill of playing and winning a match like this, with the people all on my side.
I'm very happy, because it shows that they love me in Spain and I appreciate that a lot. In the last few games I was very tense, with a lot of break points, and I managed them well. Every game is a new story and you never know what will happen.
Rune was doing very well and I finally managed to remove a major seed from the draw. I don't know who's next, but I'll be ready." The next will be the Croatian Borna Coric, in a match that is worth accessing the quarter-finals.
It is not the first time that Runa has made a protagonist of unsportsmanlike gestures, with the crowd that is not appreciating his gestures.