Nalbandian seethes over Sunday rest

David Nalbandian

went out of the men's

singles yesterday then

criticised Wimbledon

organisers for

refusing to allow play

on Sunday's rest day.

Nalbandian lost 6-2,

7-5, 6-0 to Marcos

Baghdatis in only an

hour and 41 minutes

as the No 10 seed from

Cyprus, a semi-finalist

last year, booked his

place in the last 16.

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But the Argentine

No 23 seed was furious

at having to play in a

match disrupted by

showers — and did not

feel in the mood to

hold back when asked

his views on having

Sunday off.

"I don't agree with it. I mean, nobody

agrees," he said. "The

bottom half of the

draw have to play

today, tomorrow and

the day after

tomorrow, so why?

Because nobody who

has the reason for

that decision has to

play three days in a

row, that's why. They

don't care about us.

It's very tough, very

tough."

Wimbledon

tournament referee

Andrew Jarrett had

earlier defended the

decision not to

arrange the fourth

'People's Sunday' in

the Championships'

history.

"On Saturday morning

we were absolutely

where we wanted to

be from a singles

point of view," said

Jarrett. "Saturday

itself was bad but it

takes a long time to

set up a middle

Sunday here. I think

we'd have needed to

be in substantially

worse shape to have

gone for a middle

Sunday."

Tomas Berdych

wrapped up a

third-round win over

South Korean Hyung-Taik Lee. The seventh-seeded

Czech had

established a 6-4, 2-3

lead on Saturday and

clinched the match

6-4, 7-6, 7-6.