'Go home!': Tennis star, umpire in wild screaming match

Rising tennis star Jaume Munar has blasted controversial chair umpire Mohamed Lahyani over his botched intervention at the Rio Open.

The 21-year-old Spaniard moved into the quarter-finals with a 7-6 (8-6) 5-7 7-6 (7-4) win over Briton Cam Norrie in a physical contest that lasted three hours and 20 minutes.

But the result was in doubt when the umpire played a role in the tiebreak, sparking a heated screaming match.

Trailing 2-3, Munar hit a winner in the corner – but the point was called dead when Lahyani bizarrely jumped out of his seat.

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The umpire thought Munar, whose left hand left his racquet on his follow through, had challenged the landing on Norrie’s shot.

The player was furious.

“No, no, no, no,” he yelled, throwing his racquet in a rage.

A discussion with Lahyani ensued but Munar was not having any of it, eventually turning to English: “Come on, man. Ey, ey, go home, man. You know what you did!”

The crowd jeered the confrontation, which turned sour as the two men yelled over each other.

Lahyani, who made headlines at the US Open last year when he ‘coached’ Nick Kyrgios with a pep talk, resolved to replay the point.

In a sequence of events to defy his age, Munar held strong and won the next four points before ending the contest on his second match point.

The Spaniard was somewhat diplomatic after the event.

“He missed a ball, but I messed up 40 or 50 in the game,” he said, as quoted by a Rio journalist.

“My reaction is that it can’t happen.”

Tennis fans agreed, with some unsurprised that Lahyani had interrupted the match: