French Open star loses it and smashes racket in | Sports News

Yulia Putintseva did little to cover her frustration with a chair umpire during Thursday’s second-round match at Roland Garros.

At 4-all in the second-set tiebreak, Putintseva believed that Osorio had hit her shot long regardless of there being no out call. The former World No. 20 promptly requested the chair umpire to come back over and review the mark, however the official reaffirmed that the ball landed in.

Descended might hardly consider the umpire’s ruling, as she tossed her rocket on the ground earlier than spiritedly pointing in direction of the place the ball landed. The French Open has notably avoided implementing Electronic Line Calling, which has led to no scarcity of controversial calls through the years.

Though Putintseva went on to win the tiebreak, she was unable to punch her ticket to the Third Round in Paris — in the end falling to Osorio, 7-5, 6-7(6), 7-5 following three hours and 31 minutes.

This is hardly the primary time that Putintseva has misplaced her cool on the court docket. Back in 2024, she sparked outrage amongst spectators upon showing to direct her frustration towards a ball woman on the U.S. Open.

During her 6-3, 6-4 defeat to Jasmine Paolini at Louis Armstrong Stadium, Putintseva gazed blankly into the space as a ball woman tried handy her tennis balls. After half-heartedly signaling for the woman to throw, the 30-year-old inexplicably allowed the primary two makes an attempt to bounce off her physique and foot earlier than rolling away.

On the third attempt, Putintseva reluctantly grabbed the tennis ball from the air and went to retrieve one other from the court docket, as the gang erupted in boos. She finally made her technique to the baseline for the subsequent level, whereas the ball woman returned to her place, showing visibly shaken by the unsettling encounter.

In response to the numerous backlash directed at her, Putintseva issued a public apology by way of Instagram, sustaining that she meant no disrespect towards the ball woman. “I want to apologize to the ball girl for the way I was, when she was giving me balls,” she wrote.

“Honestly speaking it was not about her. I was really —— at my self by not winning the game from the breakpoint and then got empty with my emotions and deep in my thoughts, that I was not even focusing on whats going on and who gives me the ball… All the ball kids was doing amazing as always at the open.”

After throwing away a 4-0 benefit in the third set in opposition to Victoria Azarenka on the 2022 Doha Open, Putintseva equally erupted in fury and started hurling her racquets. “Before my serve, she can do that. What’s the problem? She has to wait for me to serve,” Azarenka informed the umpire on the time. “She threw her racquet, like, 7 times. Four, four is okay. She needs a mental coach, she needs a psychiatrist.”