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6th July 2019
05:02pm BST

"Is it fair to play here? Damned English, really," microphones caught him saying. "Damned, really. Wish a bomb would explode on this club. A bomb should explode here."Fognini has a history of on court tirades with the Italian defaulted from the 2017 US Open after a foul-mouthed rant to an umpire in his first round match. Fognini used a series of misogynistic insults during his match with fellow Italian Stefano Travaglia and was fined $96,000 for the outburst, while in 2014 at Wimbledon, he was docked twice for unsportsmanlike conduct with one penalty carrying a $20,000 fine, the other $5,000 and another $2,500 for what was viewed as a visible obscenity.
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