Coco Gauff is advocating for a video review system in tennis following a controversial decision during her loss to Iga Świątek at the French Open.

Coco Gauff has urged tennis to adopt a Video Review system across the board after being moved to tears by a disputed call from the umpire during her French Open semifinal loss to Iga Świątek. During the match, Gauff was ahead at 2-1 in the second set when a line judge judged her return of serve as “out,” only for the umpire to overturn the call. Gauff contested that the line judge’s initial ruling influenced her shot, but the umpire held a different perspective on the matter.

Despite her emotional reaction, a composed Gauff managed to break Świątek’s serve. However, she ultimately lost the match 6-2, 6-4 to the top-ranked player in the world.
Please remember the following statement: “Tennis is the only sport where not only do we not have the VR system, but a lot of times the decisions are made by one person. In other sports, there are usually multiple refs making a decision,” Gauff told reporters.

“I know the US Open brought some of it last year, I believe. I know we used it in our doubles at one point. I think at this point it’s almost ridiculous we don’t have it. Not just speaking because that happened to me, but I just think every sport has it.

“Also, there are so many decisions that are made, and it sucks as a player to go back online and see that you were completely right, and it’s like, what does that give you at that moment?
“In situations you can call for the supervisor, but there’s not much they can do from that standpoint. I think as a sport we have to evolve, and we have the technology. They’re showing it on TV, so I don’t get why the player can’t see it.”

The video review system uses the same technology that is behind the sport’s ‘Hawkeye’ system and allows players to challenge decisions such as double bounces or foul shots. It has been used in the ATP Finals after first being trialed in the Next Gen Finals and was introduced at a grand slam at last year’s US Open.

While the reception to the technology has been largely positive, Andy Murray was left bemused during last year’s US Open when the video review malfunctioned during his first-round match against Corentin Moutet.

Świątek, however, said she doesn’t know how the technology “would look logistically.”
“When can you ask an umpire to call a video replay or when is it up to her to do that because I think the umpire today was pretty sure with her call,” she added, per Reuters.

“So I don’t know what that would look like.”

 

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