Serving at 4-5, Nadal ran into trouble again, saving the first match point as Soderling hit long, but then making his 24th unforced error of the match to hand the Swede a momentous victory.
In 2005, the bureau of the Fifa World Cup organising committee reached a decision to invalidate the result of a World Cup qualification match between Uzbekistan and Bahrain on the basis of a 'technical error by the referee of the match'.
The Burkinabe are also hopeful that Pitroipa will have his suspension overturned, although that depends on whether Jdidi admits to the error in his match report.