WIMBLEDON — British wild card Arthur Fery drowned out his opponent’s repeated complaints about the umpire by wearing earplugs at Wimbledon on Tuesday.
Two incidents in the second set left Bosnian world No 105 Damir Dzumhur irate with umpire Gregory Allensworth.
“Did you see the let? Did you hear the let? So you are that bad that you cannot hear, and everybody heard? I am saying you are bad. You made the mistake. He stopped,” Dzumhur could be heard saying to Allensworth.
After another let call on his own serve was not called towards the end of the second set, initially Dzumhur looked at Fery and said, “you know it’s let,” to which the Briton replied: “I have to play, if I stop I lose the point anyway.”
Dzumhur went on to speak to the court supervisor behind Allensworth, saying: “Do you understand? We are the ones playing, he’s doing the mistakes. You’ve seen what happened.”
