Thus, that pause will be “limited to a maximum of three minutes from the moment the player enters the bathroom”, with “two extra minutes to change clothes”, indicated a spokesman for the ATP confirming information from L’Equipe.
In addition, only one toilet break per game will be granted to each player, and such breaks can only be taken between sets.
These pauses, legal but whose sportsmanship was sometimes questioned, have sparked controversy in the 2021 season.
Twice at Roland Garros, in the round of 16 against Lorenzo Musetti and in the final against Stefanos Tsitsipas, Novak Djokovic took a long hiatus off the court, when he lost two sets to zero, and after that he managed to turn the score around.
Tsitsipas has also taken long pauses of this type, especially in the first round of the US Open, where he ended up defeating Andy Murray, who claimed to have lost “all respect” for the Greek after that incident.
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