‘Game, Federer,’ says chair umpire during Djokovic’s match at Italian Open against Koepfer

It has been a rollercoaster year for Novak Djokovic – 2020 started off with a superb run to the title at the Australian Open, then the unfortunate Adria Tour controversy happened, and during all that he went 26 matches unbeaten before, more recently, he was disqualified from the US Open for inadvertently hitting a line judge with the ball.

And keeping in line with the topsy-turvy nature of the year he has been having, he was referred to as “Federer” by the chair umpire during his quarter-final match at the Italian Open. Of course, it was an honest mistake by the umpire that was corrected immediately.

Djokovic defeated Dominik Koepfer 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 to reach the semi-finals in Rome.