{"id":676187,"date":"2026-07-06T06:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676187\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T06:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T06:20:12","slug":"tennis-stars-get-into-furious-row-on-court-after-playing-point-of-the-year-at-wimbledon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/676187\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis stars get into furious row on court after playing ‘point of the year’ at Wimbledon"},"content":{"rendered":"

Things got heated on-court during Wimbledon’s Round of 16 on Sunday afternoon following an incredible five-set match.<\/p>\n

After a classic between No.3 seed Felix Auger-Aliassime and Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, tensions boiled over on Court 1.<\/p>\n

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Davidovich Fokina and Auger-Aliassime clashed at the end of their match on Sunday<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime won the thrilling match 6-7, 7-6, 6-3, 6-7, 6-1 to reach the quarter-finals and send Davidovich Fokina home.<\/p>\n

But after the long clash, it was the latter who appeared to take issue with something the eventual winner had said. <\/p>\n

The pair argued as Davidovich Fokina exited the court, with the Spaniard leaning over his rival and speaking to him.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime remained seated after winning the match, but he spoke back in what seemed to be a furious altercation.<\/p>\n

read more on wimbledon<\/p>\n

It was claimed on social media that the Canadian star had said something to Davidovich Fokina<\/a> at their net greeting after the last point.<\/p>\n

But it remains unclear what the heated moment was about.<\/p>\n

Eventually, Davidovich Fokina walked away, looking back and saying something else to his opponent as he left.<\/p>\n

Auger-Aliassime was left smiling in his seat as things calmed – and the Canadian will now take on Novak Djokovic<\/a> in the quarter-finals.<\/p>\n

‘Point of the year’ <\/p>\n

The sour ending to the last 16 match at Wimbledon<\/a> came after an incredible rally that has gone viral on social media. <\/p>\n

During the fourth set of the match, Auger-Aliassime and Davidovich Fokina played the ‘point of the year’ at SW19.<\/p>\n

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The pair were involved in a heated confrontation at the side of the court\"The<\/a><\/p>\n

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The post-match clash appeared to come after some words were exchanged at the netCredit: Getty<\/p>\n

With Auger-Aliassime 3-1 up in the set and 30-0 down in the game, he somehow lost a completely frantic 20-second rally.<\/p>\n

Davidovich Fokina served and was almost instantly scrambling his way to the net to try to return a neat drop shot.<\/p>\n

He made it, but then played one of his own drop shots back to Auger-Aliassime, who managed to return that too. <\/p>\n

Then, Davidovich Fokina clipped his return into the air and his opponent smashed the ball into the ground. <\/p>\n

The No.22 seed somehow managed to flick that back over the net, before then sliding to the ground to return at the net. <\/p>\n

And that wasn’t even the best return of the rally…<\/p>\n

Davidovich Fokina then threw himself across the court to remarkably get one more return over the net after Auger-Aliassime looked to smash his shot down the left-hand side of his rival. <\/p>\n

Incredibly, his return was so good that Auger-Aliassime was unable to lift his shot over the net with Davidovich Fokina winning the point.<\/p>\n

He remained lying on the ground with his arms up in the air in celebration as the Wimbledon crowd went barmy. <\/p>\n

Read More on talkSPORT<\/p>\n

Both players smiled at eachother in disbelief at what had just happened, as fans continued to applaud on their feet.<\/p>\n

Sadly, that mutual smile would fade at the end of the match, with things ending on a sour note.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things got heated on-court during Wimbledon’s Round of 16 on Sunday afternoon following an incredible five-set match. After…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":676188,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[17845,225969,35071,101,118,56,54,55,116,225968,225967],"class_list":["post-676187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alejandro-davidovich-fokina","tag-aliassime-vs-fokina","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wimbledon","tag-wimbledon-furious-row","tag-wimbledon-row"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=676187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=676187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=676187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=676187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}