Coco Gauff was left in tears after getting into an extended argument with the chair umpire over a ruling during her loss to Donna Vekic in a Paris Olympics third-round singles match.
was left in tears after getting into an extended argument with the chair umpire over a ruling during the reigning US Open champion's 7-6 , 6-2 loss toGauff, a 20-year-old American, already was trailing by a lot when the episode happened two games from the end of the match.
Gauff was seeded second in Paris and easily won her first two singles matches, dropping a total of just five games. Even before the trouble over the umpiring decision, Gauff could not sustain a good start against Vekic, who was a semifinalist at Wimbledon this month. One measure of Vekic's superiority on this afternoon: She finished with 33 winners to just nine for Gauff.It's not the first time Gauff has been upset by a call she thought was incorrect -- not even the first time in Court Philippe Chatrier, the main stadium used for the annual French Open Grand Slam tournament that was also the site Tuesday.in the French Open semifinals last month, a similar thing happened to Gauff. She argued. She also got nowhere with the chair umpire.
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