Bosniak Damir Dżumhur and Italian Mattia Bellucci could not complain about the draw of the first round of the ATP Masters 1000 tournament in Madrid. Although both are only in the seventh ten world ranking, they came to each other and one of them had the opportunity to advance to the second round of prestigious games in the Spanish capital.
Absurd scenes in Madrid. He lost, and handing his hand to his rival, he made a strange gesture
Both players in the ATP ranking divide only three places, which was also visible in a very even duel played on Thursday morning. Tennis players competed for over 2.5 hours and although the first set fell in Bellucci's prey, in the next two the plague turned out to be better.
Bosniak finally won 4: 6, 6: 4, 6: 2 and he was promoted to the next round, where he could not complain about the ladder, because among the placed players he found the lowest placed with number 32. Argentinean Sebastian Baez.
During and shortly after the match, Jumhur – Bellucci came to strange scenes. When the gentlemen ended the competition, Bosniak headed to the Italian to thank him for the game, and then Bellucci, instead of embracing the released hand of his rival, made his strange gesture, which did not appeal to the jumhur. He towards his child's childhood behavior and without giving his hand he headed for his own bench.
It is not excluded that Bellucci's strange gesture was associated with what was happening during the match, when when leading 6: 4, 1: 0 one of the Italian points won after … the site from below. At that time, the jumhur reported to the judge that the service was made when Bosniak did not even look at his opponent and asked for video verification. The judge admitted Belluccia a point anyway, but the irritated jumhur made up the loss of breaking in the second set to finally win both the second and third party, and in effect the whole meeting.