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Wimbledon - Karlovic says he was wrongly foot faulted against Murray

According to Ivo Karlovic, the linesmen at WImbledon are conspiring to ensure that home grown Andy Murray wins WImbledon
ATP Tennis  30 Jun 2012 - 16:22 / by Prakash / reads 576.
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According to Ivo Karlovic, the linesmen at WImbledon are conspiring to ensure that home grown Andy Murray wins WImbledon.

Karlovic lost to Murray in four sets a few days ago but was foot faulted 11 times in the match.

"Foot-faults. I don't know what to say, but it was a little bit outrageous," Karlovic commented in his post match interview. "In my whole life, ever since I was eight years old, whole life I didn't do this many foot-fault. It was like 11. It was never called when it was like 30‑Love or 40‑Love. It was always when it was 30‑All or in a tiebreak. I mean, what is this? Is it Davis Cup or is it Wimbledon? After this match, the whole credibility of this tournament went down for me... But I don't do them, foot‑faults...

"Then like after I don't know how many, I stand a little bit back so they cannot call. They still did it, called. So it was outrageous, outrageous. It's Wimbledon, Centre Court, and they do this. I mean, this is BS. I feel cheated. On a Grand Slam, Centre Court...

"Right now I'm angry about it, little bit pissed, because I don't expect it here. Even though it is against English guy who they always want to win, but I don't expect it here."

Murray responded to Karlovic's claims saying he would need to look at tapes to figure out if Karlovic was right: "That's very tough to question the integrity of Wimbledon. I mean, it's got a lot of history, a lot of tradition. There's been hundreds of thousands of matches played here over the years. I've never heard that before. But I need to see the videos. If there was 11 foot-faults called against him and every one was incorrect, then that's completely wrong and unfair. But for it to happen that many times, you would think there would have been a number of fairly obvious foot-faults, because you don't really see them called that much nowadays. Very rare. If it turns out that he wasn't foot‑faulting, if I was him, I'd be very, very disappointed."
 

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