This ruling is extremely rare and was very surprising in such a big match. Still, the umpire awarded the point to Sinner. In Djokovic’s semifinal against Jannik Sinner, Djokovic was called for a “hindrance” after he grunted seemingly midway through a point but the sound stopped before Sinner hit the ball. Taylor Fritz implies grunting is an issue but just not by Novak Djokovic This is a sport after all.īut there is another aspect of many tennis players’ games that is even more annoying: The grunt.
If the umpire lets him play loosely with the clock, fine. And I mean no disrespect to Djokovic in saying that. While part of the reason he does this is to make his opponent a bit more unnerved – Like, when is he actually going to serve the ball?! – it’s also unfair. The person freely gives the ball to their opponent.īut during the Wimbledon final, especially, Djokovic seemed to get away with holding his serve just a bit beyond the service clock. Baseball and tennis have that in common while few other sports do. He’s like a baseball pitcher, prior to baseball having their own pitch clock, who can just wait, and then wait some more, before he makes an offering to his opponent. He does this for many different reasons, most likely.įor one, all the bouncing calms him and lets him dictate the pace of the match. Most times he gets the clock down to zero before moving forward with his first-or-second serve. We all know Novak Djokovic likes to bounce…and…bounce…and bounce the ball before he serves.
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