Canadian Steven Diez celebrated his victory, but the referee reversed his final decision and was eventually removed.
Ang Houston ATP 250 It started with a huge controversy. It defines quality and Dutchman Gijs Brouwer and Canadian Steven Diez faced each other, having a match point at 6-4, 5-4 when the scandal broke out.
Diez achieved the winning passing after his rival’s serve, a point that gave him victory and entry into the main draw of the tournament. “Game, Set and Match” the judge sang as the Canadian celebrated the victory and walked into the net to greet his opponent. but on the other hand Brouwer protested, as he considered his service bad, dropped the umpire, looked at the mark on the brick dust and reversed the decision in Canadian disbelief. I can’t understand what’s going on.
Even though the fight is over, Amir Borghei repeated the point. Ten, utterly shaken by what had happened, collapsed and ended in defeat in the second set 7-5 and the third 6-2. Finally, perhaps with luck, the Canadian ended in the main draw due to the fall of Jaume Munar in the final minute. So he will make his debut on Tuesday against Australian Jordan Thompson.
The release of Steven Diez after an unusual decision
“Hello everyone. First of all, before you guys read this, I want to make it clear that I have nothing against the chair umpire, I think and I really hope that he did his best in my match. But something happened to me which It’s very hard to describe in words.In the video you can see how I won the battle by a passing shot that my opponent was clearly trying to catch, and even turning his head to see the ball pass.Then celebrating and up close I had to give him the hand to my opponent, the chair umpire decided to check the mark when the game was clear over and it was too late to mark the ball, that was his first big mistake.
The second mistake is that it marks the ball literally one meter from the actual mark. Third mistake: he asked the line judge if he saw the mark? The linesman clearly points out the equivalent, and despite this he keeps his wrong mark. Fourth mistake: it tells me that my opponent doesn’t want to serve and volley and that he doesn’t want to play point; actually, he stopped the point after serving. And the fifth mistake, and the most important: the chair umpire says ‘game, set and match’. Where do I want to go here? Because many times we don’t see an umpire paying for his mistakes, and on the other hand, when a tennis player doesn’t do his job well, he flies home with zero points and less money. in his pockets “he wrote on his Twitter account.
Source: Tycsports
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