Ivo Karlovic questions Wimbledon integrity after loss to Andy Murray

WIMBLEDON

• Venue: All England Club, London

Ivo Karlovic questioned the integrity of Wimbledon after he was foot-faulted 11 times in his second-round defeat by Britain's Andy Murray.

The Croat, who lost 7-5 6-7 6-2 7-6, accused officials of favouring the home player and said he felt "cheated"
"It was outrageous, outrageous," he said. "It's Wimbledon, Centre Court, and they do this. The whole credibility of this tournament went down for me."
"That's very tough to question the integrity of Wimbledon," said Murray.
"It's got a lot of history, a lot of tradition. There's been hundreds of thousands of matches played here over the years. I've never heard that before.
"But I need to see the videos. If there was 11 foot faults called against him and every one was incorrect, then that's completely wrong and unfair.
"But for it to happen that many times, you would think there would have been a number of fairly obvious foot faults, because you don't really see them called that much nowadays."

"In the Davis Cup, you always feel like a few calls go against you. With a foot fault, you are implying that the line judge is cheating, because you can't judge for yourself as you're focusing on the ball. It's something he will regret saying it in the morning. You can't question the integrity of this tournament."

Karlovic claimed he could have won had it not been for the officials.

When asked what was the difference between the two players, he replied: "Foot faults. I don't know what to say, but it was a little bit outrageous.
"In my whole life, ever since I was eight years old, my whole life I didn't do this many foot faults. It was like 11.
"After I don't know how many, I stood a little bit back so they cannot call (foot fault). They still did it."
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