“I’m playing two against one,” the world No 30 told the chair umpire, though the official said they believed the elder Tsitsipas was just offering words of “encouragement”.
Fognini then had words with his opponent during their handshake at the net, and as the 23-year-old attempted to explain, the Italian could be heard sarcastically saying: “You know better than me.”
Speaking after the match, Tsitsipas appeared to have brushed the remarks aside as he admitted he didn’t know how he managed to pull off the comeback.
“Great comeback, honestly, I don’t know what happened,” the second seed in Indian Wells said.
source: express.co.uk