An open microphone and a disengaged tennis player: Verdasco's furious cries in the middle of the match that went viral

The emotions that a professional athlete must manage throughout the competition have all their depth of work and effort to manage them. Although most of the tennis players on the circuit maintain their sanity in all the matches, every now and then there is a case that comes out of normal and attracts the attention of the spectators. In this case, the renowned player Fernando Verdasco could not hide his internal conflicts and almost lost a game due to poor handling on the court.

The Phoenix Challenger hosted the Spaniard who has been making a huge effort to return to the ATP tournaments to be able to close his career in the best possible way, considering that at 38 he ranks 150 in the world. In the round of 16, he was 5-4 up in the third set against Polish Kamil Majchrzak and a string of errors did not allow him to close the match. With a 40-40 on the scoreboard, he made a double foul that broke the concentration he had been maintaining so far. “It's not there Quino, that's not the problem. It's not there!” , he exclaimed looking at his coach.

Then, with a break point against him, he missed the first serve and threw a reflection into the air: “Look, it's a big picture, you bastard.” These were small comments until a big return from his opponent made him lose the game and also his patience. “Tell me to continue. Tell me to keep going, I'm crap. Tell me! Penalty point, okay,” Verdasco launched looking at his collaborators, splitting his racket in half and accepting the punishment that seconds later the chair judge would give him.

“Penalty point for Mr. Verdasco. 15-0″, exclaimed the umpire with the match 5-5. Far from cooling the situation, Fernando again shouted before the Pole's serve: “Tell me to continue pussy, tell me to continue. It's very good. Tell me! To the bloody match ball a rod or a net.” Automatically, the party's highest authority decided to give the Spaniard a new warning. “Gambling penalty to Mr. Verdasco”, he declared through the microphone setting the 6-5 in favor of Majchrzak.

The situation continued to grow and Verdasco reminded him of a ball that the referee did not want to go to check if it was good or bad that ended up on a point in favor of Kamil. “You can give him the match if you want. For the ball over there you can give him the match. Which you didn't want to correct because you were too far away. That's very good. It's a very good excuse,” he said while looking for a new racket in his bag to what the judge closed: “Majchraz wins 6-5″.

Beyond all the penalties, the Spaniard brought out all his experience and ended up winning the tie-break to win the match. Unfortunately, Fernando fell immediately in the quarterfinals against American Jeffrey John Wolf and said goodbye to the Phoenix Challenger still in search of a performance that would allow him to return to the ATP tournaments at the age of 38.

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