{"id":71986,"date":"2024-08-17T19:58:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-17T23:58:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/?p=71986"},"modified":"2024-08-17T19:58:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-17T23:58:20","slug":"the-most-dramatic-ending-to-jack-draper-vs-felix-auger-aliassimes-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/2024\/08\/17\/the-most-dramatic-ending-to-jack-draper-vs-felix-auger-aliassimes-match\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dramatic Ending To Jack Draper vs Felix Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s Match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It was a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/WeAreTennis\/status\/1824706613191528779\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dramatic ending<\/a> to the third-round match between Jack Draper and Felix Auger-Aliassime. Draper was serving for the match in the third set, with the score, 40-30, and a match point for Draper. The Brit served and the sequence after Auger-Aliassime made the return was \u2014 <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ball hits Draper\u2019s racquet, then the ground, the racquet again and travels from the racquet to the net and drops on the Canadian&#8217;s side. It should have been Auger-Aliassime&#8217;s point but the umpire called \u2014 game, set and match Draper.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">*Draper&#39;s ball hits the racquet twice*<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Umpire says it&#39;s good, game, set &amp; match Draper<br \/>&#8211; Auger-Aliassime does not agree at all<\/p>\n<p>Huge DRAMA on match point in Cincinnati \ud83d\ude31<a  href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/T5bx3LAjkU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/T5bx3LAjkU<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; We Are Tennis (@WeAreTennis) <a  href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WeAreTennis\/status\/1824706613191528779?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">August 17, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Felix Auger-Aliassime asked the umpire &#8220;Did you not see the ball bounce on the floor? He shanked it on the floor.&#8221; The umpire (Greg Allensworth) replied that he did not see that. Draper said he didn&#8217;t know and was looking at Auger-Aliassime as he hit the half-volley and was willing to replay the point if there was a replay. Auger-Aliassime said: &#8220;<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It doesn&#8217;t matter where you were looking. You have played enough that you know.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"The Most CONTROVERSIAL Match Point Ever | Draper vs Auger-Aliassime Cincinnati 2024\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OD54dUJ3Cow?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s hard to believe that Draper didn\u2019t know, he would have surely felt it. Players tend to know exactly if the ball hit the ground. He could have conceded the point and that might have changed the outcome, but obviously, it\u2019s a match point in a big tournament so, easier said than done. The umpire&#8217;s error was a human error, which is understandable and can happen to anyone but these errors are costing players matches and big prize money. It\u2019s 2024 and we still don\u2019t have video replay in tennis officiating, which would solve all these calls.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Auger-Aliassime was a Class Act<\/h2>\n<p>Despite knowing that Draper knew he hit the ball to the ground, Auger-Aliassime said it was not Draper&#8217;s decision to make but the umpire&#8217;s. He <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">handled this bad call better than almost any other player would have. He was 100% reasonable and accurate, with zero overreaction and was so calm, that many players would be furious. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Probably the most composed you can be after a terrible decision steals away a match-point save that would have brought it to deuce. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If anything deserved an overreaction it would&#8217;ve been this, and no one would blame him.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The umpire should have been honest and said he wasn&#8217;t 100% sure and should have offered the solution of the replay in that situation, he certainly didn&#8217;t seem that sure of himself when explaining his decision to Auger-Aliassime. The Canadian being a class act asked the umpire one last time whether he was 100% sure about his decision and the umpire said &#8220;This is how I saw it.&#8221; Unfortunately, the umpire was wrong but Auger-Aliassime accepted the decision and shook hands with Draper and the umpire.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Main Photo Credit: Jerry Lai-USA TODAY Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a dramatic ending to the third-round match between Jack Draper and Felix Auger-Aliassime. Draper was serving for the match in the third set, with the score, 40-30, and a match point for Draper. The Brit served and the sequence after Auger-Aliassime made the return was \u2014 The ball hits Draper\u2019s racquet, then the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5086,"featured_media":56738,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2,9],"tags":[1720,259,2259,1715,1219,42367,11131,6457],"class_list":["post-71986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-atp","category-featured","category-news","tag-atp-cincinnati","tag-atp-tour","tag-atp-world-tour","tag-cincinnati-open","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-greg-allensworth","tag-jack-draper","tag-tennis-news"],"modified_by":"Steen Kirby","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/tennis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}