Sathiyan, ranked 71st in the WTT World Rankings, made a comeback from two sets down and was leading 2-0 in the fifth and final set when he claimed the umpire made some \"unfair\" calls that cost him the match. Sathiyan lost to the 111th-ranked Poret 8-11, 8=11, 11-4, 11-5, 6-11 at the Sir Molade Okoya Thomas Indoor Sports Hall in Lagos, Nigeria.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
In his post on Instagram headlined, \"Unfair umpiring at its worst here in Lagos\", Sathiyan said the \"unfair umpiring\" broke his rhythm and left him disappointed and dispirited.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I never normally complain about these things but what just happened today is beyond imagination & was totally unfair,\" said Sathiyan in his post.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"I made a good comeback from 2 sets down & was leading 2-0 in the final set. The opponent was given a service fault (he was even given a warning before), and after a lot of quarrels with the referee, out of the blue, the opponent took a medical timeout just to kill time when he had no medical issue until then, and to my surprise, it was granted as well,\" wrote Sathiyan in his post.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
\"And then when I was leading 3-1 in the last set, I was given a service fault out of nowhere without even a warning, in the serve in which I was getting a lot of points, probably just to make it even which totally spoiled my rhythm,\" said the Indian player a multiple-time medallist in the Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
Sathiyan, who won a bronze medal in the Men's Team event at the 2018 Asian Games in Jakarta, said this kind of umpiring at the international level was very disappointing.<\/p>\r\n\r\n
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