The Swiss, who needed three and a half hours and raised seven match balls against Sandgren to get into the semifinals, did not enter on Wednesday. On Thursday (9.30 Spanish time), appointment with Djokovic.
Federer, during the quarterfinal match against Sandgren.
The International Tennis Federation has fined Roger Federer with 3,000 dollars, about 2,730 euros, after being warned in his quarterfinal match of the Australian Open against the American Tennys Sandgren, for an “audible obscenity.”
The Croatian chair judge Marijana Veljovic I warned the Swiss on Tuesday in the third set of that game when the American dominated 3-6, 6-2 and 2-0. “Code violation, audible obscenity, Mr. Federer,” said the chair judge, to which Federer replied: “What did I say?” “I can't repeat that, but she (the online judge) has heard it clearly,” added the referee. Then, Federer sealed his pass to the semifinals after saving seven match balls, 6-3, 2-6, 2-6, 7-6 (8) and 6-3.
It is the second time in his career that Federer receives a penalty in a Grand Slam. In the final of the 2009 US Open, against the Argentine Juan Martn del Potro of 2009, that of Basel was fined $ 1,500 for blaspheming in that meeting during a discussion with the chair judge. The Swiss lost in that final, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 4-6, 7-6 (4) and 6-2.
Relaxation and physiotherapy
On the other hand, Severin Luthi, coach of Federer, informed that the Swiss did not enter this Wednesday to prepare the semifinal that will face Novak Djokovic on Thursday (9.30 am in Spain) to relax and do physiotherapy. “Roger do not enter today as planned. The goal was in relaxation and physiotherapy. I hope you feel better tomorrow (by Thursday), “said Luthi, who shares the technical direction of the Basel player with the Croatian Ivo Ljubicic, to Swiss media in Melbourne.
Luthi did not want to specify either how Roger is physically after beating the American Tennis Sandren, after an exhausting encounter in which he was injured in the groin in the second set. On the day of this Wednesday, and always according to Luthi, Roger will have been treated by physiotherapist Daniel Troxler to “Recover him from the tensions and pressures of the five parties in which he had spent more than 12 hours on the court”.
Among the records that Federer has is that of not having retired in a tennis match in which he jumped on the court. S has unsubscribed from one before starting an encounter, as in Pars Bercy 2008 against James Blake in the quarterfinals, against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the semifinals of Doha 2012, and the most recent, in the quarterfinals of Rome last year, or the final of the London ATP Finals of 2014 when a problem in the back prevented him from facing Djokovic, his rival on Thursday, with which he maintains an unfavorable balance of 26-23.
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