Alexander Bublik: "I highly doubt Andrey said something crazy. He's not this kind of guy. But I guess that's the rules. That's what they did, they just follow up the procedure." "It's a pity it's ended like this." "I wish Andrey to get back on track as soon as possible."
"If we take the umpire out, we cannot take off Andrey": Alexander Bublik suggests tennis would be better with electronic line judges after Rublev drama"
ATPSaturday, 02 March 2024 at 10:30
Alexander Bublik is through to the final of the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships against Ugo Humbert which will be played later this evening. But his semi-final against Andrey Rublev was marred by the Russian being defaulted.
Rublev screamed in the face of a line judge and was immediately defaulted which saw mixed opinions and in the viewpoint of Bublik, he sees it as a marker of a wider issue. He says that the players are vital to the sport and line judges/umpires aren't and taking them away from solve a lot of issues. At some tournaments, there are no line judges, but this is not at a small level which is where this incident took place.
"If we take the umpire out, we cannot take off Andrey. That is the thing. We cannot take off players. Players will be there. It's tennis because of the players, because we are playing this sport, not the opposite way around. We can take any umpire away and that would solve many issues," Alexander Bublik said as per AFP.
"We have this proof every week that when the tournament is with electronic line-calling, we don't have these troubles. Players are not getting crazy."
"It's our passion. We play for this. We live for this. We grew up dreaming to be playing these stadiums."
"Then some guy who is working for three years as a line judge, staying there deciding something. Then you come up to the situation like this. Is it fault of Andrey? Maybe. Is it fault of the umpire? Maybe."
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