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The nine-times champion beat fellow Spaniard Roberto Bautista
Agut to reach the last eight but was twice warned by umpire
Carlos Ramos for slow play, before being docked a serve after
beaching the mandated 25-second limit between points.
"If you want to play well, you have to let players breathe a
little. We're not machines that cannot think. That's my
viewpoint," Nadal told reporters.
"What else can I say?... But this umpire is, I think, trying, in
a certain way, to look for my faults, my errors."
The 14-times grand slam champion believes that umpires should
focus on the match rather than the time elapsed.
"Theoretically, the umpires are here to analyze the match and
they are not here to use the stopwatch, otherwise we should have
a stopwatch on the court," Nadal added.
"That's the whole point. Some dictate things or give their calls
in a certain way. Other umpires have different styles."
Nadal next faces Spaniard Pablo Carreno Busta in the
quarter-finals and remains on course to win the competition for
a 10th time.
(Reporting by Aditi Prakash in Bengaluru; Editing by John
O'Brien)
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