Andy Murray was involved in a heated confrontation with the umpire Mohamed Layhani at the ATP Rome Masters in Italy over a contentious line-call on the baseline of the court.
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The umpire ruled that a small part of the ball had touched the white line but Murray was adamant it did not. The decision gave Fabio Fognini a point to hold serve and lead 5-3 in the first set. Murray ultimately lost in three sets to the home favourite.
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29 Comments
Blind Layhani.
Why a master series tournament does not have the Hawke's eye technology?????????????????
Yikes, do I smell some cheating?
should have challanged it see on the screen, very bad call.
How come the hawkeye people are not in communication with the umpire, soccer does it now, watching replay video to judge better….
Позорники, да введите уж везде hawk eye, даже на грунтовых турнирах. К чему вам это позорище? У профессиональных спортсменов как правило развито такое чутьё, что они чувствуют даже миллиметровые попадания/ауты.
is he fired after that?
Big momentum change if this was correctly called Murray would have gone on to win the Rome masters without dropping a single point
Murray is always having problems with everyone whenever he is losing
It was out
Murray is right and how come YouTube showed the ball out..are they not using a camera at that tournament for difficult decisions?
I'll see more of that match online..hope Andy is able to make another major this year.
Yeah when I saw this live I couldn't quite understand the umpires point of view, the ball came at a trajectory where his claim that it skidded off the line which caused separation was all but impossible, and his major point of "I saw it and the line judge saw it the same" is just asinine, I mean maybe on hard court that runs but on clay the whole reason there isn't hawkeye is because of the mark, if you're going to base it off what you see from the umpire chair then you're basically treating it exactly like hard court just without hawkeye, marks are there for a reason and any logical person would have awarded Murray the point, now would it have flipped the match around? who knows, but I think this just adds to the spreadsheet of reasons all clay tennis needs hawkeye, like Madrid.
I don't get it, for some stuff they use computers, no? Why not all the time
The ball was out. That’s all
This is not why he lost the match. It cannot be. Otherwise…
And it was at that point that Andy Murray realized it was time to retire from tennis and dedicate his remaining days to his true passion – pickle ball.
And that was the exact moment Andy Murray lost all respect for Tsitsipas.
And this was the exact moment Andy Murray decided to become a better tennis player. In the future he vowed one point would never again affect him so much that he would forfeit his epic run up to the final and ultimate championship.
And this was the moment Andy Murray decided the umpire was adopted and could never overcome the feeling of abandonment, with no true father to guide him, so Andy forgave him and went directly to the pagoda to pray for his well being.
Hawkeye showed clearly, so! Still, there are people booing which is even worse!
Happened again today with Djokovic's ball wrongly called in and Rune even referenced this match. I've always respected Lahyani and ofc umpires can make human mistakes too, but twice in the same tournament ain't a great look
Only way for Italian players to win, corrupt officials, very Italian…
How can the Umpire call it IN even tho the mark was clearly out, it's beyonde me
This makes no sense, the replay shows that its out, why argue about it rather than looking at the clear evidence that shows its out???
The umpire is wrong, but most likely fed up with Murrays constant complaining throughout the match.
Such a sore loser…he is way his past.
Guess they need to use Hawkeye for clay, too.
the last thing he was ….guess….yes furious
See it was me. I be ragin that was out chair umpire is wrong. I can see it that ball was differently out that Andy was right 💪🏻🎾 that should his point