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It's the 1985 Australian Open QF, the fourth set.
Commentator telling: "Firstly, the line umpire called out however, the chair umpire says the ball was good. Naturally, that's a reason to protest,
John McEnroe, known too as a super brat or super grouch, of course, a super player as well, used the opportunity to argue a bit wouldn't he maybe disturb the opponent who, obviously, was improving.
The referee of the match is Peter Ballinger. Here we see the referee. He must react too.
Here you see, Boba isn't wasting time, he went to the central box, sat down, lift his legs to rest a bit, took a sandwich, a glass of water, for a moment you've seen he's been offered champagne, a pitty he refused it, should've known he'd win he could drink to his big victory.
The dialogue between McEnroe and umpires is finished.
And now we'll see that Boba Živojinović can scheme too. Right when McEnroe was ready to serve, Živojinović approached the chair umpire to ask whether he's been warned, umpire told him he hasn't been, our player answered "alright, just wanted to know what's been happening on the court"."
Later we learned Živojinoć took champagne too while having the sandwich.
It was a huge episode. Over and over repeated in media and, for the first time, the widest audience could actually assure the stories about Živojinović's character were true.
It portrayed the whole sport in a somewhat different way than it's been perceived by then, and contributed to its popularity.
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