Coco Gauff overcame a slow start and an argument with the chair umpire to take a three-set win over Karolina Pliskova on Wednesday.
The win ends Pliskova’s 11-match winning streak.
After losing the first set, Gauff had built a lead in the second set. Then, chair umpire Pierre Bacchi called out her serve at deuce after Pliskova returned it into the net.
“You called it out after she hit it,” Gauff could be heard telling the umpire, being urged on by the crowd. “The call was a late call.”
She later asked multiple times for the umpire to call the supervisor to help clarify the rules, although the umpire refused to call the supervisor. The total exchange went on for more than four minutes.
“I’m gonna ask her what the rule is,” Gauff said. “You can’t tell me the rule. If I’m questioning the rule you have to call the supervisor. That’s within my right, I know it is.
“You’re going to apologize after this match because you know you messed up,” she continued. “I’ve never questioned anything like this before.”
Coco Gauff is not happy with the umpire in her match against Pliskova.
“You called it out after she hit it.”
“Can you not cut me off for two seconds?”
“Call the supervisor… you can’t deny me the supervisor. I’m gonna ask her what the…
