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Wimbledon Championship 2022: Rafael Nadal apologizes to Sonego for his behavior after the match

Nadal was getting very upset by the noise being made on the court by Italian player Sonego and Nadal also expressed his anger about this.

Former world No. 1 and second seed Rafael Nadal in the men’s section of the Wimbledon Championships 2022 has apologized to his third-round opponent, Italy’s Lorenzo Sonego, for his behaviour. Nadal had easily defeated Sonego 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 in the third round match and easily made it to the last 16, but during the third set Nadal argued with Sonego whose Because of which the audience criticized him.

This match was quite exciting but in the middle of the match, Rafael also appeared very angry. Nadal was seen losing his cool while playing the match against Lorenzo Sonego, whose video is also becoming increasingly viral. Let us inform that Nadal was getting very upset by the noise being made by Italian player Sonego on the court and Nadal had also expressed his anger about this and called Sonego on the net and explained it after a long conversation. In fact, in the third set of the match, Nadal was leading 4-2 and while returning the service in the match, Sonego was making the sound that players usually do while returning the ball and applying force. Sonego was on the verge of breaking Nadal’s serve for the first time in the match. In such a situation, perhaps Nadal did not like to be on the verge of service breakdown. He first talked to the chair umpire and then called Sonego near the net and started telling him something.

Let us tell you that neither the audience nor Sonego liked this behavior of an experienced player like Nadal, who won the Grand Slam 22 times. Sonego raised questions about Nadal’s sportsmanship, after which Nadal has apologized for his actions in front of the media. Nadal apologized to Sonego after the match and said that ‘I would like to say that what happened was wrong. I shouldn’t have called them on the net. That’s why I apologize to him. It’s my fault in that. Never mind, I got it. This is something I talked about in the locker room. Nadal said, ‘The only thing I can say is that I have seen him in person. I didn’t mean to bother them at all. We had some issues there, but that’s it.

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