Novak Djokovic calls for video replays in tennis after Jack Draper controversy

Djokovic: ‘Embarrassing we don’t have video replay’.

VIDEO REPLAYS: Chair umpire Greg Allensworth explains a controversial match-ending point to Felix Auger-Aliassime of Canada and Jack Draper of Great Britain. Picture: Matthew Stockman/Getty Images

Novak Djokovic has called for the introduction of video reviews in tennis after the bizarre conclusion to Jack Draper’s match at the Cincinnati Open prompted a wider debate about the use of replays in the sport.

Draper, the British No 1, beat Canada’s Félix Auger-Aliassime 5-7, 6-4, 6-4 to reach the quarter-finals of the competition, but the match ended in a heated argument with an angry Auger-Aliassime claiming to officials that Draper’s winning volley had gone into the ground first. The umpire, Greg Allensworth, was unable to view a replay and called the point in Draper’s favour.