He shouldn’t start again anytime soon. Opposed to the Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov in the 3rd round of the Indian Wells Masters 1000 last night, Alexander Bublik attempted a serve under the spoon. But the Kazakh player completely missed himself.
At the end of the second set, when he was leading 40-0, Alexander Bublik tried to surprise his opponent with an underhand serve popularized by Michael Chang at Roland-Garros in 1989. But his attempt failed because the ball went finished directly in the net. The 33rd player in the world then experienced a real moment of loneliness on the court, but he was the first to laugh at his ridiculous miss.
We’ve all had moments of loneliness like this…#IndianWells pic.twitter.com/D5eRlf2bnw
— Eurosport France (@Eurosport_FR) March 16, 2022
If he still managed to win his service game, Bublik, Andy Murray’s scorer in the previous round, ended up losing in straight sets against Dimitrov (6-3, 6-4). And the Bulgarian will be opposed next night to the American John Isner to try to clinch a place in the quarter-finals in the Californian desert.