In less than 24 hours, three tennis players subjected three umpires to three tirades of different flavors in Shanghai.
Tuesday night in that Chinese city, world No. 17 and U.S. Open semifinalist Frances Tiafoe told umpire Jimmy Pinoargote that he “f***ed the match up’ after the umpire called a time violation against him at 5-5 in a deciding tiebreak. Tiafoe had walked to the baseline as the shot clock, which adjudicates time between points, went to zero, and then tossed the ball into the air with no intention of hitting it.
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Tiafoe lost his first serve for the violation, his third of the match, and then lost the next two points
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