Off at Wimbledon: Zverev scolds the line judge – Sport

• Alexander Zverev retires to Wimbledon – weakened by illness – in the third round
• His last appearance is accompanied by boos and differences with the line judge.
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The end was at the beginning of the fifth movement. Like Ernests Gulbis, this amazing strategist who can speak so well about anything, has seized the moment that has happened to him. Alexander Zverev looked tired, tired, drawn, and it was understandable. He had played in Paris at the Open de France three games on five sets. He was recovering but had to heal a wound afterwards. At Wimbledon, Zverev had to start again in the second round, even in two days. The duel with American Taylor Fritz had been canceled due to the darkness. Subsequently, Zverev had confessed that he also had a virus to treat. He went to the bathroom during a break.

When Gulbis was saved in the fifth set against Zverev this Saturday, he felt that all this would come to him now: "I played smart," he said later. Gulbis, 29, of Riga, used Zverev, played left and right and stopped and praised. It squeaked the best pro German. Zverev rolled into the net after 3:20 hours of recess. That was not the problem, it was the sum of the burdens. Gulbis scores 7: 6 (2), 4: 6, 5: 7, 6: 3, 6: 0 in Kei Nishikori's first knockout round. For Zverev, third in the world, his fourth appearance at Wimbledon ends with a disappointment. He will now also lose some points in the world rankings. In 2017, he had reached the turn of the end of 16.

But it was also a defeat with a taste for another reason. At the end of the third movement, Zverev had once again shown that he could not always control his temperament. After apparently being addressed verbally to a line judge, the chair umpire issued a warning. Then Zverev grumbled, said hostile, slammed the bat on the net. There were boos. At the break, Zverev did not calm down, on the contrary. Zaverv rises against the line judge

"Does he need attention or what?" He called the chair umpire, referring to the line judge who had previously reported an "obscenity" audible "of Zverev as an offense. What does the line judge want to hear? "Ask him?", Zverev later replied to a reporter dryly. In the recording of the match was at least clear to hear what Zverev in the episode had still scolded. "Does he need attention or what does he need?" He shouted to the chair umpire. "So, you believe it and not me, since when can a line judge issue a warning?" He shook his head, took a sip. And he said aloud: "He just wants to be important once on a big place in Wimbledon, that's what he's talking about, so you'll remember his face." He later said, "What he said does not matter, he's just a linesman."

When asked at the press conference, Zverev said shaking his head: "I do not remember what I said." In any case, he does not regret or regret his words, "I did not say anything wrong". Basically, Zverev found a positive balance for himself, the virus had just added him this time. In the fourth sentence against Gulbis, he had the impression that someone had "unplugged". He will come to Wimbledon for many years, "I'm not worried," said the 21-year-old. "I showed everyone I could play on five sets." For him, it was just "a matter of time, when I'm at the Grand Slam, much better."

He said goodbye to Wimbledon but once with the phrase: "I'm on the boat at Monte Carlo you will not see me again."