The tennis star delivered one of the all-time dummy spits during the first set of their Adelaide International quarter final clash against Australia's Alexei Popyrin. 9News
Yoshihito Nishioka vents his frustration in Adelaide.
Nishioka then lost another point to go 15-40 down as he approached Rask and demanded to speak his supervisor."If you're Alexei, you're like the stranger in the supermarket watching the parent and a child who is out of control, trying to come back together as one," Peacock added.Popyrin then won the next point to go 4-1 up as Rask tried to appease Nishioka by calling up his ATP supervisor, Stefan Franzen.Franzen eventually appeared as Nishioka continued to unleash.
Nishioka: "Why I have to get a court violation? You don't change anything. That was a very important point and now I'm losing. There was a chance to break his service game but he took it."Nishioka: "Chair umpires never say 'I'm wrong.' They always say 'I'm right, that's wrong.' That's crazy. It always happens, this conversation."Rasheed: "This is pretty poor.
Nishioka managed to recover his composure and take the first set 7-6 before Popyrin won the second, also in a tie break 7-6 . For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by
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