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Andy Murray accused Mardy Fish of gamesmanship after his AEGON Championships third-round clash was halted for bad light.
The third seed confronted umpire Cedric Mourier and supervisor Tom Barnes after it was decided to postpone the match with the score locked at 4-6 6-1 3-3.
Fish had just surrendered a 3-0 lead in the decisive set when he made his request to abandon a contest that had started at 7.10pm and was being played amid gloomy conditions.
Barnes agreed and Fish gathered his equipment and walked off without a word, leaving a bemused Murray stood on the baseline ready to continue.
When the Scottish third seed realised what had happened, he approached Mourier and Barnes to complain about the decision.
"Marty says he doesn't want to play so we stop playing. The umpire didn't consult anyone," Murray said on centre court.
"That came out of nowhere. The weather was absolutely fine. It's ridiculous.
"The only reason he wanted to stop was because it was 3-3."
A rollercoaster match was halted with Murray clawing back the ascendancy and the showdown for a place in the last eight will resume at 12.30 tomorrow.
Murray will be hoping to avoid joining the big-name casualties that exited Queen's today.
The injury-troubled Rafael Nadal precariously negotiated uncomfortable his match, but Novak Djokovic, Andy Roddick and Marin Cilic were all dumped out.
Nadal endured a challenging afternoon before emerging an unconvincing 7-6 (7/4) 4-6 6-4 winner against Denis Istomin of Uzbekistan.
The world number one and 2008 Queen's champion was troubled by a glute/hamstring injury after the second set and had the top of his right leg massaged, delaying play for several minutes.
Once he resumed, he had to save two break points in the seventh game before needing three match points to dispatch an opponent ranked 72 in the world.
"I'm going to have the leg the tested. The pain started slowly and then I felt it more," said Nadal.
"At the moment I'm not thinking about pulling out of the tournament. I'm sure I'll play tomorrow. I'll be very careful but should be okay."
Roddick became the first big-name casualty of this year's tournament when he slumped to 6-4 7-6 (10/8) defeat by Dudi Sela of Israel.
Ranked 63 in the world, Sela claimed his greatest victory on grass after being in control for most of his third-round match against the American fourth seed.
"Dudi played a perfect match. I'm not concerned about the way I'm hitting the ball - I'm not panicking," said Roddick.
"I've been practising a lot recently and would rather spend the time getting matches in.
"If I'd have had two more matches here, there'd be zero complaints."
Awaiting Sela in the fourth round is Rainer Schuettler of Germany, who was given a walkover after Richard Gasquet withdrew from their match because of a back injury.
Roddick's exit was later trumped by the exit of second seed Djokovic, who was beaten 6-3 4-6 6-2 by France's Xavier Malisse.
Shifted onto court one because of the weather-enforced delay, the world number three from Serbia was convincingly seen off by a player positioned 71 places lower in the rankings.
Cilic also suffered a shock defeat with Michael Llodra of France prevailing 7-6 6-2, while Feliciano Lopez dispatched Julien Benneteau 6-2 6-4 to set up a last-eight clash with Nadal.
