{"id":32622,"date":"2022-06-01T21:07:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-mcenroe-criticizes-rafael-nadals-timing-at-french-open\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T21:07:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T21:07:07","slug":"john-mcenroe-criticizes-rafael-nadals-timing-at-french-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-mcenroe-criticizes-rafael-nadals-timing-at-french-open\/","title":{"rendered":"John McEnroe criticizes Rafael Nadal&#8217;s timing at French Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>It was a classic Rafael Nadal performance in more ways than one for John McEnroe. <\/p>\n<p>The Tennis legend vented over Nadal taking his time serving in Tuesday&#8217;s quarterfinals of the 2022 French Open, which saw Nadal defeat Novak Djokovic in a four-set thriller, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6.<\/p>\n<p>McEnroe, who has previously complained about Nadal&#8217;s timing, suggested during his Eurosport commentary that the Spaniard \u201cshould be penalized\u201d for violating the shot clock. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you are going to do it, do it, otherwise don&#8217;t bother.  It is like humoring everyone, \u201dsaid a frustrated McEnroe.  \u201cIt&#8217;s a joke!  He takes a look at the clock again\u2026 one.  He&#8217;s edging it, isn&#8217;t he?  Shouldn&#8217;t they have it at 15 seconds on the second serve?  10?  Something? <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Or don&#8217;t bother.  It&#8217;s like, you can take as much time as you want on the second serve.  How long is this game?  12 minutes?  Jeez. &#8220;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><figcaption>Tennis legend John McEnroe recently criticized Rafael Nadal for taking his time over serves at the 2022 French Open<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Corbis via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-3.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rafael Nadal, here on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, has received time violations in the past\" class=\"wp-image-22493010\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-3.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Rafael Nadal, here on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, has received time violations in the past<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Nadal eventually received a time violation in the second set but did not appear to acknowledge the penalty or the umpire.  <\/p>\n<p>Nadal is known for his leisurely routine on the court in between serves, which has led to a number of time violations for disregarding the 25-second countdown.<\/p>\n<p>The 35-year-old&#8217;s routine typically includes placing his hair behind his ear, pulling on his nose, and adjusting his shorts before bouncing the ball numerous times on the court. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRafa has got his ritual that takes 30 seconds every time he plays a point,\u201d McEnroe said of Nadal last month in an interview with Insider.  \u201cIf you&#8217;re that great you can get away with it. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-2.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at the French Open\" class=\"wp-image-22493009\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-2.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Rafael Nadal defeated Novak Djokovic on Tuesday, May 31, 2022, at the French Open<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-1.jpg?resize=1024%2C683&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal shook hands following their thrilling French Open contest on Tuesday, May 31, 2022\" class=\"wp-image-22493006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/nadal-1.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><figcaption>Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal shook hands following their thrilling French Open contest<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThat&#8217;s one of the incentives of being the best &#8211; you get away with more, as evidenced by what I did at times on the court and what he does, in a totally classier way, though.  Obviously, he&#8217;s not out there screaming at people or anything. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>Nadal topped Djokovic early Wednesday at Court Philippe-Chatrier in their 59th meeting. <\/p>\n<p>He will now face No. 3 seed, Alexander Zverev, in the French Open semi-finals on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a classic Rafael Nadal performance in more ways than one for John McEnroe. The Tennis legend vented over Nadal taking his time serving in Tuesday&#8217;s quarterfinals of the 2022 French Open, which saw Nadal defeat Novak Djokovic in a four-set thriller, 6-2, 4-6, 6-2, 7-6. McEnroe, who has previously complained about Nadal&#8217;s timing, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/john-mcenroe-criticizes-rafael-nadals-timing-at-french-open\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">John McEnroe criticizes Rafael Nadal&#8217;s timing at French Open<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":32623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[10495,15916,4262,3466,295,3468],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/newspress-collage-22491079-1654110882435.jpg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/newspress-collage-22491079-1654110882435.jpg?quality=75&strip=all&1654096558&w=1024","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32622"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}