“Are you acting here or what? Why do you call the score for 20 seconds?” “What’s the drama of you waiting between English and Italian?” yelled Djokovic, who had just been warned for exceeding the allotted 25-second period between points. The outburst came 24 hours after Djokovic’s feisty run-in with British No 1 Cameron Norrie, and shortly before he was eliminated from the Italian Open by Denmark’s Holger Rune. Having received a time-violation warning from chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani, the world No 1 responded by accusing the Swede of behaving more like a thespian than a tennis official. Shapovalov will now face Rafael Nadal in the quarterfinals, after the Spaniard beat Adrian Mannarino in straight sets.Novak Djokovic’s fractious week in Rome continued with another on-court showdown. “It’s always better to finish in three … this is probably the one I least expected to finish in three,” he added. “I’m happy to pull through and win today again,” Shapovalov said after reaching his first career Australian Open quarterfinals. Under the hot Australian sun, it took 22-year-old Shapovalov two hours and 21 minutes to complete the upset victory over Zverev. It was actually Zverev who was serving to win the second set with a 5-3 lead, but he produced two double faults which allowed Shapovalov to break back, before he rescued the second set in a tie break later on.Īn early break in the third set allowed Shapovalov to control the third set, and at the first time of asking, was able to claim the stunning win when Zverev could only hit a forehand into the net. Having raced into a one-set lead, an important early break point victory in the second set for Shapovalov caused Zverev to take his anger out on his racket, smashing it on the ground until it was thoroughly ruined.

Zverev makes a forehand return to Shapovalov.

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