PARIS (AP) — Coco Gauff was not thrilled about the chair umpire's ruling that went against her during a Roland Garros semifinal loss to Iga Swiatek on Thursday—and made that quite clear to the official.
Gauff also thinks it's about time that tennis moved into the 21st century and relied on video replay technology at all events, the way many other sports do.
"At this point, it's almost ridiculous that we don't have it," she said. "There are so many decisions that are made, and it sucks as a player to go back or (watch) online, and you see that you were completely right. And it's, like: What does that give you in that moment?"
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The 20-year-old American, who won the US Open in September for her first Grand Slam title, disagreed with chair umpire Aurélie Tourte's decision early in the second set of Swiatek's 6-2, 6-4 victory. Swiatek hit a serve that initially was called out at around the same time as Gauff was swinging to hit a return, which landed out. The call on the serve itself was reversed to "In," and Tourte awarded the point to Swiatek; Gauff said that was unfair because she thought she was affected by the original "Out" call.
"I have the right to finish my swing," Gauff said.