{"id":16616,"date":"2026-07-07T23:46:57","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16616"},"modified":"2026-07-07T23:46:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T23:46:57","slug":"wimbledon-told-to-scrap-disgraceful-rule-you-should-never-do-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/8657085.xyz\/?p=16616","title":{"rendered":"Wimbledon told to scrap \u2018disgraceful\u2019 rule:  \u2018You should never do that\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <div style=\"display: grid; grid-template-columns: 300px 160px; gap: 2px; width: 460px; background: #eee; padding: 2px;\">\r\n\r\n  <!-- \u6574\u884c\u5bbd\u5e7f\u544a -->\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; width: 460px; height: 250px; background: #ccc; display: grid; place-items: center;\">\r\n  <script async type=\"application\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/a.magsrv.com\/ad-provider.js\"><\/script> \r\n <ins class=\"eas6a97888e2\" data-zoneid=\"5876674\"><\/ins> \r\n <script>(AdProvider = window.AdProvider || []).push({\"serve\": {}});<\/script>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n  <div style=\"grid-column: 1\/-1; 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by world number four&nbsp;Felix Auger-Aliassime.<\/p>\n<p>Canadian star Auger-Aliassime clashed with Alejandro Davidovich Fokina towards the end of their last-16 match at the All England Club.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime was leading by two sets to one and serving for the match when his Spanish opponent called for a medical timeout.<\/p>\n<p>Davidovich Fokina received medical attention to his ankle but did not seem hampered by the issue when play resumed, immediately breaking Auger-Aliassime to force a decisive fifth set.<\/p>\n<p>Auger-Aliassime appeared briefly rattled by the timeout but regained his composure to dominate the fifth set and advance to the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n<p>Canada&#8217;s number one did not hide his frustration at the incident in his post-match press conference, accusing Davidovich Fokina of exploiting a &#8216;disgrace of a rule&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;The interactions between him and I, I don&#8217;t want to get into that,&#8217; an animated Auger-Aliassime said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2284208128.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-29075889\" alt=\"Day Seven: The Championships - Wimbledon 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Felix Auger-Aliassime clashed with Alejandro Davidovich Fokina (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8216;If he wants to come in here and talk about it, he can. But he knows my opinion. That&#8217;s one of these things that I have differences with people in my life on tour. They know what I think. That&#8217;s the most important.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Now what I can say, though, is that I think the [medical timeout] rule has to change. I think that, obviously, as long as the rule is like that, a player will use it to their advantage.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I think that it&#8217;s very simple. If you&#8217;re hurt bad, or whatever you&#8217;re hurt, while the game&#8217;s going on of your opponent, in the middle of the game, the opponent is serving, the shot clock is on, basically when you&#8217;re hurt bad, you&#8217;re forfeiting every point until you can call the physio.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2284207793_ec2a05.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-29075900\" alt=\"Day Seven: The Championships - Wimbledon 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Auger-Aliassime said it was a &#8216;disgrace of a rule&#8217; (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8216;If the physio helps you recover, you play your service game. If you&#8217;re hurt bad, then you retire, obviously.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;But to stop in the middle of an opponent&#8217;s service game, and to be able to call the physio, I think that&#8217;s a disgrace of a rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I don&#8217;t see any other sport where you can do that. I mark my words. It&#8217;s a disgrace of a rule. So that&#8217;s it.&#8217;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-2284773574.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-29075917\" alt=\"Day Seven: The Championships - Wimbledon 2026\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Davidovich Fokina called for a medical timeout (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Former American tennis star Steve Johnson has also criticised the rule which allows players to receive medical timeouts before or during their opponent&#8217;s service game.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Felix has been playing great and&nbsp;he hadn\u2019t&nbsp;been broken in this tournament until that little kerfuffle late in the fourth set,&#8217; Johnson said on the Nothing Major podcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was serving for the match, trying to close it out, and Fokina hurts his ankle or foot and limps off to get some treatment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"img-container shareable-item wp-caption\">\n<div class=\"img-wrap\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" src=\"https:\/\/metro.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-588689428.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=594\" class=\"article-image wp-image-29076184\" alt=\"Tennis - Olympics: Day 7\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>\t<\/div><figcaption>Former American tennis star Steve Johnson (Picture: Getty)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&#8216;He ices Felix&nbsp;pretty good&nbsp;and&nbsp;ultimately gets&nbsp;the break and wins the&nbsp;tie-breaker&nbsp;before Felix did what he needed to do.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He was a little upset about the timeout, he was talking to his&nbsp;box&nbsp;but he was able to calm down after losing the fourth set. Obviously&nbsp;he wanted to win it in&nbsp;four but sometimes&nbsp;that\u2019s&nbsp;good for the confidence to close it out in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;He&#8217;s&nbsp;always well-spoken and mild-mannered and&nbsp;not many&nbsp;guys would say a bad word about him.&nbsp;He\u2019s&nbsp;usually very measured in the press but he said it was a disgrace,&nbsp;it\u2019s&nbsp;a disgrace of a rule.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I&nbsp;disagree&nbsp;with the rule as&nbsp;well,&nbsp;you should never take an injury timeout while your opponent is serving or while they are serving. You should always take it before your own serve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Fokina&nbsp;didn\u2019t&nbsp;break any&nbsp;rules&nbsp;and Felix&nbsp;wasn\u2019t&nbsp;targeting&nbsp;him&nbsp;but it&nbsp;didn\u2019t&nbsp;look good because he comes out running and was fine and gets the break.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I\u2019m&nbsp;not going to pick sides&nbsp;here&nbsp;but I agree the rule should be&nbsp;changed&nbsp;and I completely understand why Felix is annoyed.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>For more stories like this,\u00a0check our sport page<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\"><strong>Follow Metro Sport for the latest news on <strong>Facebook,\u00a0<\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Metro_Sport\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Instagram<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<section id=\"share-buttons-bottom\" class=\"share-buttons share-buttons-bottom\">\n\t\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><title>Comment now<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-comments__label\">Comments<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<span><title>Add Metro as a Preferred Source on Google<\/title><\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"share-bar-preferred-source__label\">Add as preferred source<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/section>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><!-- \u603b\u5bb9\u5668\uff1a\u6700\u5927\u5bbd908px Grid\u7d27\u51d1\u5e03\u5c40 -->\r\n<div style=\"display: grid; 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