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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