A tennis star who will be competing at Wimbledon had some choice words for the umpire at the Eastbourne Open on Friday after losing his cool during the quarter-finals.   

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina won the first set against Jakub Mensik and had just gone 5-4 down in the second when the incident occurred.

Davidovich Fokina Fokina showed his frustration as he threw his racket to the floor following the conclusion of the game, which had put his opponent on the verge of levelling the match on sets. 

The Spaniard couldn’t believe it, protesting that the punishment was undeserved.

He asked him to call the supervisor before saying that he didn’t accept that warning as the situation intensified.

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina received a warning for chucking his racket to the floor on Thursday

The umpire was not impressed and handed him what he thought was an obvious violation

Davidovich Fokina labelled the umpire the worst that he has ever seen during the exchange

It didn’t end there as he went on to tell the official that he was ‘the worst umpire I’ve ever seen’ and said ‘I don’t know how you sit there.’

Davidovich Fokina’s argument was that he threw the racket outside of the baseline and did so in a manner that wasn’t reckless.

The supervisor arrived and agreed with the umpire’s decision, however, saying: ‘it’s a grass court. We don’t do that on grass courts.’ 

Fortunately for Davidovich Fokina he proceeded to win the the next game and the following two games to wrap up a 6-4, 7-5 victory and progress to the semi-finals. 

Tennis fans are braced for more hot-headed moments during this year’s Wimbledon tournament, which kicks off on Monday, after a spate of rows involving stars in the build up to the iconic grass court competition. 

Russian-born Yulia Putintseva made headlines earlier this week after the tennis star – widely regarded as the sport’s biggest brat – was told ‘nobody likes you’ during a frosty post-match exchange with her rival Maria Sakkari. 

Having shaken hands at the net after winning 7-5, 7-6, Sakkari vented her fury at Putintsevaa after the Kazakh refused to look her in the eye during their exchange. Sakkari was heard telling her opponent ‘nobody likes you’.

To some, they may never heard of Putintseva until recent days, but the 30-year-old, who is world No 34, has a lengthy rap sheet from her career – the worst of which came in New York last year when her savage behaviour towards a ball kid earned her worldwide condemnation. 

Tennis’ biggest brats are heading for Wimbledon this summer after a string of heated moments 

Women’s tennis stars Yulia Putintseva and Maria Sakkari clashed on court earlier this week

Yulia Putintseva then broke her silence after her x-rated handshake row with Sakkari

During her match against Jasmine Paolini at the US Open, footage showed two balls being thrown towards Putintseva ahead of her next serve, but she ignored them and stared back at the ball girl without moving. 

That left the youngster in an awkward position, before Putintseva caught the third ball and resumed the match when she was down 4-2 in the second set.

Putintseva was loudly booed and twice apologised for her ‘terrible behaviour’, insisting she was ‘p***ed’ at herself rather than the ball girl.

‘It’s kind of scary the way the world can judge someone from just a three second video, that someone posts from one side, without seeing the rest on what was really happening,’ she wrote on social media.

‘I was just playing tennis and lost a tough game, which was very close (in my opinion) to turn that match around.

‘After the game (as you can see on a pic) I got very much disappointed and was almost crying, that I didn’t do better.

‘At this time the girl was giving me the ball, which I didn’t even notice or so, because I was deep in my thoughts… I was not trying to humiliate her (or anyone) by not taking this ball that she was giving to me.

‘I didn’t do anything disrespectful to anyone at this particular moment. I do apologise, if this girl thinks that it was something towards her. (And btw her name is Kate, very nice girl, which understood that it was nothing towards her).

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‘I can’t say that I am perfect all my career. I am getting angry on court, p***ed, saying stupid stuff and curse like no tomorrow sometimes. Guilty for that. But I did never put myself “on top” of someone. That’s just not me at all.’

One man who won’t be causing carnage on court at Wimbledon this year as Nick Kyrgios, the feisty Australian best-known for his meltdowns throughout his rollercoaster career.

Kyrgios has ruled himself out of the grass court season owing to injuries, and was dumped from the BBC’s coverage of this year’s tournament.

However, the Canberra-born star will be at the All England Club this summer after signing up as a pundit for talkSPORT, and is expected to pull no punches when serving up his opinions of the game.