Novak Djokovic was booed by the crowd as he fumed at the umpire and his own coaching team at Roland Garros during his men’s singles Olympics semi-final victory over Italian Lorenzo Musetti on Friday evening.
The Serbian has split opinions amongst tennis fans throughout his stellar career and fumed when he was hit with a second time violation during the Olympic clash.
Djokovic lost his first serve as a result of the violation and stormed towards the umpire to complain after losing the subsequent follow-up point.
An X-rated exchange followed and the 37-year-old was then struck with a code violation for his language before ending the exchange saying ‘You’re trying to do your job, you know how it is on court right? You recognise the right moment to do it,’
He then walked back to the baseline grinning with annoyance, evidently due to the way his violations had been publicly issued by the match umpire.
The crowd booed and whistled throughout the entire exchange with the eventual winner of the tie one set up and tying one game apiece in the second.
However, when Musetti then broke Djokovic’s serve as the game got back underway, the tennis legend turned and lost his temper with his own coaching box sat in the stands.
