“She is not allowed to sit” – Coco Gauff told chair umpire after Laura Siegemund sat down to drink water.
The encounter had no shortage of drama as both players were at loggerheads over the time they spent between points.
In the second set, Siegemund was the first to voice her frustration during her service game, which lasted almost half an hour and resulted in Gauff claiming the break. The German complained to the chair umpire that she needed more time between the points during the arduous game.
While Coco Gauff refrained from countering her opponent, the situation boiled over in the third set when Laura Siegemund kept delaying the World No. 6’s serve. Gauff finally confronted the chair umpire over the leniency as Siegemund kept escaping time violations.
Coco Gauff says that she tried to be ‘respectful’ as she confronted the umpire during a bad-tempered US Open first-round win over Laura Siegemund.
The American came back from a set down to advance 3-6 6-2 6-4 at Flushing Meadows but the match was not without controversy following a series of disputes over time between serves.
“I was really patient the whole match. She was going over the time since the first set. I never said anything. I would look at the umpire, and she didn’t do anything,” Coco Gauff recalled in her US Open press conference.
“But then it got to the point where she was doing it a lot on my serve,” she said, adding, “I was being nice. My team told me I should have spoke up earlier.”
Coco Gauff says that she tried to be ‘respectful’ as she confronted the umpire during a bad-tempered US Open first-round win over Laura Siegemund.
The American came back from a set down to advance 3-6 6-2 6-4 at Flushing Meadows but the match was not without controversy following a series of disputes over time between serves.
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