Rafa Nadal was slow to serve and his rival, the Canadian
Denis Shapovalov
, was getting impatient.
After losing the first set,
Shapovalov
complained to the chair umpire at the start of the second set because he considered that
Nadal
had been slow to get back on track.
"You are corrupt," the Canadian tennis player told
Bernardes
, reports Marca.
The Canadian continued with his protests against
Rafa Nadal's
delay
, to which the chair umpire replied that the Spaniard still had eight seconds.
At
Shapovalov's
insistence
, Nadal himself approached the net to try to defuse the situation.
It was not possible to hear what Nadal said to him, but his rival ended up shrugging her shoulders and continued the match.
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