Tennis
Casper Ruud confronts umpire after asking him to step in during tense Madrid Open semi
Casper Ruud approached the umpire and claimed he wasn’t doing “enough” to control the crowd in the middle of his semi-final showdown with Francisco Cerundolo. The No. 14 seed grew frustrated when spectators started calling out before his second serves during a tense, 15-minute game in the second set, and asked the chair official to step in.
Ruud confronted the umpire again during the changeover, suggesting he could do more to deter Cerundolo’s fans from disrupting his game. But the official could only make a brief announcement.
