Rafael Nadal and Lorenzo Sonego had clearly different ideas about what happened during their third-round match at the 2022 Wimbledon.
Rafael Nadal appeared to march towards a straightforward victory when he was up 6-1, 6-2, and 4-2 against Lorenzo Sonego in the 2022 Wimbledon third-round match. The Italian was gaining ground after the roof shut, but ultimately fell to the Spaniard.
The conversation between Nadal and Sonego at the net, most likely on the latter's prolonged grunts, was one of the more contentious moments of the game. Both players said something about the incident after the match and while the Spaniard was apologizing, his opponent was not really happy about what happened.
"I was wrong. Probably, I should not have called him on the net. So, apologize for that. My mistake on that. No problem to recognize that."
"A player should not call his opponent on the net. You cannot do that at Wimbledon. Nadal should have just had a word with the umpire. He distracted me."
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