Veselý advanced thanks to a curious point. Once in a lifetime, the Czech tennis player marveled

While Jiri Vesely didn’t get anything for free the whole match, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina literally gave him the last ball. The Czech tennis player thus advanced to the third round of Wimbledon in a very curious way.

Veselý will probably never forget the course of the Wimbledon second round match for the rest of his life. He won the first set 6-3 against the 37th player in the ATP rankings and although he was the better player, he lost the next two sets after losing 5-7 and 6-7.

But he came back in the fourth set and dominated that set by 6-3. The deciding fifth set came down to a 6-6 tie. That’s when the supertiebreak comes, that is, to ten points instead of the traditional seven.

And the 67th ranked tennis player on the ATP rankings had the supertiebreak again well played, he was leading 9-7 and had two match points. When Vesely went to wipe himself in a towel by the mantel before the deciding balls, the umpire announced the end of the match, which shocked the Czech tennis player.

Davidovich Fokina had actually hit the ball into the stands, which is against the rules. And considering that he had already received one warning for foul language in the supertiebreak, referee Carlos Ramos had no choice but to award the Spanish tennis player a penalty point. He gave the victory to Vesely.

“It’s a once in a lifetime experience,” Veselý said after the match. “I didn’t notice what happened. I was hiding in the corner and heard the announcement. I quickly ran to the net and got away before the umpire changed his mind,” said the Czech tennis player.

“To be honest, it was more of a relief for me. I don’t even know if I would have finished it. There were so many chances! It was a one-goal game, yet I was losing 1:2 sets. I had a break in the second and the third. I helped him with my own mistakes. I was fighting with myself. It was my psychoterror. I should have won more clearly on grass with my serve, which unfortunately I was not very good at,” Veselý said.

Source:: iSport, Wimbledon