Poor Pablo Carreño Busta Chucked His Bag And Raged Off The Court After A Thorny Call
Photo: Mark Kolbe (Getty) Well, here’s the messiest moment of this Australian Open to date, tainting the end of a five-set epic. No. 23 seed Pablo Carreño Busta won two sets, then No. 8 seed Kei Nishikori won two sets, and then they played on to a fifth-set super-tiebreak, which goes to 10 points, win by two. Considering they’d been going at it for almost five hours before this, the quality of play was remarkably high. Here’s the tiebreak in its entirety; at 3-2 (3:27 in the below video) you’ll see the best point of the match, a 20-point rally that ends on a down-the-line exclamation point....
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