Sports is better off for people like this - article from Rohit Brijnath, ST
"Smyczek is not done. At 6-5, down 30-love in the fifth set, as Nadal serves for the match, an idiot calls out just as he strikes the ball and it disturbs him. Nadal's first serve is a fault. It is bad luck. It is unfortunate. It is life in sport now where spectators intrude on the play.
Smyczek is not expected to intervene, it is not his fault, no one will think poorly of him if he stays silent. Furthermore, he knows his tired, almost dizzy opponent is just holding on. Facing a second serve, at this juncture, is in fact to his advantage. It suits Smyczek to do nothing. Till he does something.
He tells Nadal to take two more serves, to replay the point, to hit the first serve again. It is almost unthinkable and thus it is beautiful.
Nadal serves a first serve again. Smyczek loses the point. Then the match."
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