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Coco Gauff stood up for herself big time after she thought that the chair umpire in her Dubai match against Karolina Pliskova made a blatant mistake and refused to acknowledge it.
Late in the second set of her Dubai round-of-16 match, Gauff hit a serve and Pliskova returned it before chair umpire Pierre Bachi called the American’s serve out. Pliskova’s return landed out, and when Gauff challenged the call on her service, it turned out that her serve was actually in. But chair umpire Bachi refused to give point to Gauff, instead telling the American to repeat her first serve.
“You called it out after she hit it,” Gauff argued… “Call the supervisor… you can’t deny me the supervisor. I’m gonna ask her what the rule is.”
For minutes, Gauff was pleading her case and demanding the supervisor to be called but chair umpire Bachi was adamant that she should replay the point and not have the supervisor called to the court.
“Can you not cut me off for two seconds?” Gauff bluntly asked at one point, before adding: “You called the ball way after she hit it. It’s not a feeling it’s the fact. You called the ball out – I thought it was in – the ball bounced and you said out. It was a late call. Everybody knows you called it out way…
