From Thursday 20 June the documentary on the last days of Roger Federer’s career is available on Prime Video. Many fans couldn’t hold back their curiosity, immediately taking an hour and a half of their time to watch it.
Many were thus able to observe a series of interesting scenes that were inserted into the film. Among these there is a small discussion that took place at the Laver Cup, in the locker room, between Rafael Nadal and Matteo Berrettini.
The two, together with the other players present, began to talk about the screams of tennis players that can be heard on the court when the ball is hit (those of some athletes disturb the opponent who is on the other side of the net quite a bit). .
At a certain point the Spaniard brought up the episode that happened at Wimbledon in 2022 with Lorenzo Sonego, which turned into a small argument on the pitch. The 28-year-old Roman intervened to defend his compatriot friend in a certain sense: “Look, he always does this when he gets excited.
He didn’t do it to annoy you” are the words expressed by the Italian, which however would not have convinced the winner of 22 Slam titles very much. In fact, the Iberian reacted like this: “Trust me, he did it on purpose”.
The argument of 2022
Nadal and Sonego had made rather spicy statements at the end of that match which was remembered above all for the controversy raised by Rafa over the Turin player’s excessive shouting.
“There’s no way one tennis player calls another at the net, it’s done in the third category, not at Wimbledon. You call the referee, you don’t call your opponent at the net. At that moment it influenced me. At the end of the match he apologised, it was very polite.
However, I told him that at that moment he had influenced me” were the Italian’s statements in the press conference. The former number one also apologized in front of the media, as well as revealing that he had then spoken to the Italian in the locker room : “I’m very sorry if I bothered you.
I just wanted to explain that to him. I did it nicely, but now I feel really bad for bothering him. I was wrong. I probably shouldn’t have called him to the net. I apologize for this, my mistake, I have no problem recognizing it.”
