During their semi-final encounter in London, which Federer won 4-6,
7-5, 7-6(6), TV footage showed Wawrinka asking Federer’s box to keep
quiet between serves and complaining to chair umpire Cedric Mourier that
his opponent's wife Mirka had heckled him.
Both players, however, talked down the incident at a news
conference in Lille, where the Davis Cup final will be played on clay
from Friday to Sunday.
"We had a conversation after the match. Everything's totally
relaxed about the situation. We're old enough. We have Severin
(Luthi) as a coach and Davis Cup captain and friend who was there, as
well,” Federer said.
"I just wanted to
see if there was any hard feelings because it was probably one of the
loudest moments of the match, around 5-4, 5-5 score. Clearly a lot of
noise.
"Yeah,
like I said, there's no hard feelings whatsoever. We're having a good
time here. We are friends, not enemies. But obviously it was maybe one
of those moments, heat-of-the-moment situation.”
Wawrinka said: “I think first thing, we had no problem
together. We talked about that already straight after the match. Not
only about that, about many things. We know how to deal when we have a
small thing like that.
"There's not much to say because it's become a big deal because
of the press, because of you. But for us it's nothing really. It took us five minutes to talk about that and to think about the next main goal that we have - the Davis Cup this weekend."
Date: 18th November 2014, Source: Reuters
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