© Getty Images Sport – Matthew Stockman
Coco Gauff’s coach Brad Gilbert highlights he is not approving Andrey Rublev’s actions in Dubai but also adds that it’s another case of why tennis needs to have the electronic line system across all tournaments.
On Friday, world No. 5 Rublev was in the middle of a tense battle against Alexander Bublik when he felt that a line umpire missed a call at 40-30 on the Kazakh’s serve. Rublev, whose frustration instantly boiled over, went to the line umpire and started shouting in his face. Another line umpire stepped up and claimed that Rublev was hurling obscenities in Russian – which led to the chair umpire Miriam Bley throwing the Russian out of the match.
When the replay was shown on the TV screen, it was revealed that Rublev’s ball was in. But Rublev reacted the way he did and it was over for him.
A week earlier, world No. 3 Gauff had a heated moment with chair umpire Pierre Bacchi and it was because the French umpire made what appeared to be a pretty blatant mistake. After her unreturned first serve was called out late, Gauff challenged the call and her serve turned out to be in. But chair umpire Bacchi refused to give Gauff the point,…
