“Let’s say you’re in a tricky situation, you go, ‘Right, I’m going to bash myself with a racquet and get a breather’. Why has this taken so long? Get one of those little band aids, the round ones. This does not constitute a medical timeout, in my opinion.
“This is not a good look for the sport… This is not necessary. The way the trainers are carrying on, you would think he requires stitches. Blood is not streaming from his head. It is like a pinprick. I have seen it all now.”
Speaking after the match, Mannarino praised Sonego’s performance and felt ‘lucky’ to have come out on top. He said: “It’s always a tough match with him and in the second set I felt it could go either way. I was lucky at four-all to go to the break up and everything went my way today.”
