Q. Do you think some umpires [use the shot clock] differently to others?
DANIIL MEDVEDEV: Yeah, I think so. I think Fergus gave me two or three times in my life a time violation and I always went nuts.
Because sometimes you play Rafa, you play, I don’t know, Sascha takes, Novak takes some time to prepare for serve. And of course you play them sometimes with a different umpire. But I would love to see Fergus — I cannot play Rafa anymore, but if he would make, like, 10 times time violation to Rafa, because you need to have some common sense sometimes, which maybe you should.
I think also what would work great is to advertise a player, meaning, you know, not give only me, everyone, you first advertise, meaning on the changeover, you say, look, there was one or two times you were getting really close, next time it’s going to be a time violation.
And not like Fergus gave me, I remember this in Vienna, I went absolutely nuts and lost the match because of it, on the tiebreak, where I played like crazy two points with Moutet, I didn’t even go for the towel, something, and he gave me time violation. And this I don’t accept still.
Yeah, I think there is a difference.
