Alejandro Davidovich Fokina signed one of the notable victories of the day on Wednesday at the Australian Open by beating Félix Auger-Aliassime after recovering from a handicap of two sets to nothing (6-7, 6-7, 6- 4, 6-1, 6-3).
The two men, who played for 4 hours and 40 minutes, finished this meeting in the Melbourne night, at 1:15 in the morning.
However, the match was interrupted for a moment in order to change courts, because both players were visibly bothered by the slightly too noisy atmosphere on court 6 where Arthur Cazaux and Jacob Fearnley were playing.
The Spaniard thus returned to this curious sequence after his victory: “A Frenchman was playing on the next court, we had the stands just to our left.
-You know how the French public is, they make a lot of noise and it was impossible to play.
At each of their points, they applauded very loudly and during the exchanges, they started shouting. We decided to change courts because it was impossible to play concentrated. »
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