Rublev’s wrath: Sixth seed Russian throws tantrum as he’s beaten by Wimbledon rookie

Andrey Rublev, the famously hot-headed Russian, smashed his racket 7 times implicit his genu successful a meltdown en way to his humbling astatine the hands of Francisco Comesaa astatine Wimbledon connected Tuesday.

The Wimbledon sixth seed’s tantrum aft a wayward changeable sparked audible gaps and came 2 months aft helium besides mislaid his chill astatine the French Open.

Some viewers expressed interest implicit Rublev’s payment aft helium crashed his racquet against his limb six times successful frenzied manner earlier adding a seventh for bully measure.

It had been a choky lucifer betwixt the sixth effect and outsider Comesana connected Court Two, but the Argentinian yet won 6-4, 5-7, 6-2, 7-6.

Rublev’s meltdown took spot successful the 4th crippled of the 3rd set, with the 2 players having won a acceptable each. Comesana broke Rublev for the 2nd clip successful the acceptable to spell 4-1 up, starring to a furious absorption from the Russian aft helium deed a chaotic groundstroke.

In May, Rublev had been progressive successful a heated statement with umpire Lazemar Engzell, having smashed his racket to the crushed and screamed towards his players’ box. Rublev was apologetic for his behaviour astatine the time, saying, “I don’t retrieve behaving worse astatine a slam ever”.

Andrey Rublev’s archetypal circular Wimbledon lucifer against Francisco Comesana did not spell to program for the Russian.Credit: Getty Images

For Comesana, it was a large scalp successful his archetypal lucifer astatine a expansive slam, and his 2nd lucifer of immoderate benignant connected grass.

The 23-year-old rookie belied his deficiency of experience, playing with poise and power from the start. He broke his hostile for a 3-2 pb successful the archetypal acceptable and past held to triumph it, overmuch to the vexation of Rublev, who often screamed retired large and remonstrated with his courtside coaching team.

Rublev broke aboriginal successful the 2nd and began to asseverate himself, often wrong-footing Comesana oregon drafting him into agelong rallies and overpowering him with almighty forehand shots. Comesana fought his mode backmost from 3 acceptable points down doubly successful the 2nd acceptable earlier losing it.

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But the Argentine, who fired down 21 aces successful all, powered done the rain-interrupted 3rd acceptable and narrowly outdid Rublev for guile and accuracy successful the 4th earlier drafting an unforced mistake from the Russian to decorativeness the lucifer successful style.

Coincidentally, Rublev fell connected the aforesaid time that Czech Marketa Vondrousova suffered ignominious nonaccomplishment successful the archetypal circular of the women’s singles.

Like Rublev, Vondrousova was the sixth effect astatine Wimbledon this year.

Whereas she became the archetypal unseeded pistillate to triumph the Wimbledon singles rubric past year, Vondrousova made a antithetic benignant of past connected Tuesday.

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The Czech became the archetypal defending women’s champion to beryllium beaten successful the opening circular this century, and lone the 2nd since the Open epoch began successful 1968.

The Telegraph, London

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