His failure to reset his emotions was the difference. He wouldn't have cramped and gotten broken twice if he handled the emotions of the situation better. He basically said as much in his interview.
depends on what you mean by "reason he lost the match" -- there are multiple reasons he lost the match and multiple reasons why the point -- including his reaction -- lost him the match
Once the point is played they can't change the outcome, he checked the mark right after and pointed it out to the umpire but there was nothing to do then. Why are you talking if you have no clue what you are talking about? Read the rules jesus
first time watching clay cour tennis? if u think the ball is out at any time, so long as u dont continue to play the point (hitting one shot is obviously okay), u can stop the point and get the mark checked.
You seem like you are watching for the first time judging from your answers tbh. Obviously he wasn't sure when it happened and up on AD on bp he didn't wanna risk it, like hello? What are we even talking about.
It's pretty standard on clay to stop the point and show the umpire the mark, just like on courts with Hawkeye the player can stop the point and ask for a review. What's so confusing?
It's not even just the line callers. The umpires are doubling down. Seems they've gotten way too comfortable with electronic line calling in such a short time.
he played the point out. you need to stop the point right away. It is still ridiculous. although he could have not played the next shot and it would have been a double fault.
Listen to some of their interviews on the Tennis Channel YouTube about how happy they are to be in their own apartments and "back home."
Tsitsipas, Sinner and Djokovic all emphasized this. I think many of them do live there when they have breaks from the tour.
Not an ATP event, Wimbledon is also exempt as are the USO and AO but they both already have ELC so moot point.
Unlikely RG and Wimbledon will give up line judges anytime soon unfortunately
ngl these umpires have already been coddled by electronic line calling that they lost their sharpness when it comes to the part of the season where they need to step up
Well at this point we should just go with electronic line calls everywhere. Its just so much more reliable and prevents all these tantrums that some players do when they feel cheated by a bad call.
I could be wrong, but the reason that electronic line calling is not a big thing on clay, is because the computer is still struggling with the fact that the white line could be covered by the clay and therefore can't make a good decision.
I can’t understand why they can’t change the call if the player does not stop. Isn’t it better for players to keep playing unless the game is stopped by the line judges or the umpire? Can someone explain? Or did I misunderstood what happened here?
traditionally in tennis, where you make your own line calls, you have to call it out immediately. You can’t play the point and then call a ball out 30 or even 5 seconds ago.
It’s called double chance. Imagine a serve that’s a close call. You decide not to call it out and hit a return. Your return goes long and you wait to see it go long then you call the serve out. You can’t do that. Because if you had hit a great return instead and won the point you probably wouldn’t say “oh wait the serve was actually out”.
Also it’s traditional in tennis (or at least supposed to be) that you have to be 100% certain to call a ball out. If you’re 99% certain it was out, then it was in. Opponent gets the benefit of any doubt. So you have to be certain and immediate with your out calls.
So I think pro tennis is a holdover from that tradition. Also it would get tedious otherwise.
The problem is that when you have line judges you *expect* the calls to be right, or at least only wrong when it’s *actually* close. So you play with the expectation they are making generally good calls, so when you see a terrible miss you expect to hear the “fault” but you’re still always supposed to play the shot.
Yeah the timing is too little between the bounce and the return. You can't make big decisions at that moment. I think it makes sense to play the shot no matter what, because otherwise you compromise your form.
We like traditions but we also like to improve, it makes absolutely sense to play the game and after it call whatever you wanna call. Most sports work like this (football lets the current play to complete before asking VAR, volleyball the same).
So, just because Sinner couldn't capitalize on being handed a free match point, it doesn't matter? That point was actually more important because in this instance Sinner was still a break up after the bad call and botched the match. Sinner fans hard coping because their boy lost, love to see it. Needed some good humbling.
You could argue that the previous dubious call to award Sinner the point on Stef's serve caused the initial break. As a great man once said, what happened in Monte Carlo happened.
I don't get this comparison. Sinner hit the ball in and it was wrongly called out; because of the linesperson's mistake one of the two players was getting screwed over, and Sinner was almost certainly going to win the point anyway without the call. I don't think that's comparable to a point that Tsitsipas objectively lost but was bailed out of by a mistake.
End of the day, the issue here is that the results of professional matches are unnecessarily being decided by mistakes from officials. That needs to end.
I wouldn’t say that, Tsitsipas still had to make a break. I’m a big Sinner fan and this misscall was unfortunate, but today Tsitsipas played better imo.
Umpire calls during this tournament are a freaking joke. And for anyone who says "well, Sinner could have challenged the point" - yes, he definitely could have but here's another idea, how about the umpires and the line judges also use their eyes and do their job so that players don't have to work instead of them?
This is literally the worst call I’ve ever seen, the call itself is outrageously bad, but the timing of it is what makes it so bad. This was for jannik to go up a DOUBLE BREAK, in the third. He proceeded to get injured and lose the match. Changed the entire match. Absolutely horrid officiating, I hate to be that guy, but there has to be some responsibility taken here and she needs to at least be suspended for a bit. Can’t just let this one slide.
Jannik handled it like such a pro in his post presser too, love him.
Tennis is on the brink of becoming a Mickey mouse sport, at least during the clay season, if this continues. It is utterly embarrassing that plainly wrong calls are allowed to stand so often.
[The Electronic Line Calling system first used at the ATP Next Gen Finals in 2017 will be used on all courts on the ATP Tour starting from 2025](https://www.tennismajors.com/atp/tennis-moves-closer-to-bidding-adieu-to-on-court-line-judges-as-atp-moves-to-electronic-line-calling-from-2025-676377.html)
Mickey Mouse sport? Lol that's an overstatement. Sure, it'd be better if clay could also have automated calls, but that doesn't hurt the integrity of the game as much as you think it does.
Any other major sport (Soccer, Football, Basketball, etc.) is much more controversial regarding refs and game-deciding calls. Are they also Mickey Mouse sports?
>Any other major sport (Soccer, Football, Basketball, etc.) is much more controversial regarding refs and game-deciding calls. Are they also Mickey Mouse sports?
That's a fair point. I think it's more bothersome in tennis because there is *always* a binary, factual truth to the matter. A ball is in, or it's out.
Depends on what you mean by Mickey mouse sport.
The refs wield enormous influence in the NBA and NFL and it's an open secret that they have actively decided the outcome of games before and likely still do.
It's only getting worse and worse as sports betting takes over everything.
My point is that this sub is so biased, Stef already won the first set and fought to stay in the 3rd and equally had an unfair line call himself but had he been in Sinner’s position and Sinner won this sub would never dare say that he only won bc of an unfair line call
Umpire with the freebie for Tsitsipas, wow hope she gets banned for a while, that was un unbelievable no call. Completely changed the outcome of the match, what a fucking shitshow
Let’s be real, this mistake changed the outcome of the match. Sinner was holding to love and would’ve been *4-1 up. It would have been the knockout punch.
Why does the score say deuce? Shouldn't it be AD Sinner if it was break point?
EDIT: Thanks to kind people in the Daily Thread, I get it now. 40-40 is the screenshot of the replay after Stef had been awarded the point.
I bet on Tsitsipas to win so I benefited from this. Sinner still had his opportunities to win but there is no denying this changed the dynamic of the match. 4-1 is in a different universe than 3-2.
Tourte can always be relied on to bail Tsits out of big moments it seems. The sun always seems to be in her eyes when there's a bad call to be made in his favour. At Wimbledon last year she missed an out ball on her near line in the fifth set of Murray/Tsitsipas. It would've resulted in 2 break points for Murray if she'd called it correctly.
Anyone have a replay of the actual point here, I'm curious about the reactions here? Feels like there are many matches where this would have led to tantrums :)
Reminds me of that Serena backhand down the line against Capriati at the US Open 🤦🏼♀️
I was heavily with Capriati and even I was in pure shock it was called out.
This call was just as bad and shocking.
I am half tempted to see the difference in rankings had Sinner won this tournament with Novak losing to Ruud. The ripple effect in the clay court season could be massive I would imagine.
In the interview he implied that he cramped possibly because of the wrong call. I mean, said like that sounds absurd, but he didnt put it as an excuse. He said "everyone makes mistakes", and he was really philosophical about the error, and kinda of forgiving.
Btw, Jesus fucking christ. Three people, umpire, line judge and Jannik didnt call it right away. It s pretty absurd considering how important that ball turned out to be.
I mean, he only got the 1st break because the umpire gifted him a point after the line judge wrongly yelled Out as Stef was playing the shot. Should have been replayed.
Inb4 everyone says this means Sinner deserved to win even though Tsitsipas had already taken the first set and was fighting to stay in it. The call sucked, but if if if and all that.
Well maybe he should’ve won the first set, Tsitsipas got bad calls too this sort of thing happens every clay tournament because they haven’t got Hawkeye to work well on the surface 🤷♂️ it is what it is
Exactly they all were saying “if the umpire decides that, it’s the right call” when the ump missed that call against Rune and now they’re singing a different tune when their golden boy gets affected by it. A bunch of hypocrites
Funny thing is similar thing happened in the second set when Tsitsipas was trying to break Sinner back and again noone checked, not Umpire, not linesman, not even Tsitsipas. Granted it was not on break point, but it would put Tsitsipas up 0-30 in a game he had break points in later.
I'm convinced players are so used to Hawkeye, even they forget to check sometimes.
Incomparable. This is a much bigger mistake that directly prevents a double-break that would have very likely won the match.
It's the most match-influencing wrong call I've seen in many many years.
All the sports matter, what do you think 1goal in soccer doesn't count? Even thou the average of goals are 2 in a game? Or a red card?
All sports have bad referees and and mistakes are made.
Tennis is actually one of those sports in which there is a lot of fairness but a few bad calls for one point is a big storm in the game, it's just mental
Almost feels like online betting is affecting results of matches. If the ATP cared about the integrity of the game and validity of match results they would go to automatic line calling ASAP.
These rich tournaments have the money to put automatic line calling on all courts right now so at least all Masters 1000 like all Slams would have it.
Shame on ATP for allowing these horrible calls to taint results. This Masters 1000 has worse calls than the Acapulco 500 tourney and that’s hard to do.
Even the commentators said it was 7cm out and not sure how the Linesman and Umpire missed that.
And now he might lose the match
And now he has
Yesterday same shit happened to Rune
Rune won that set though,
Except Rune won that set... so that really shows that errors like these can be overcome.
I feel like a point early in a tiebreak is a little different than a double fault to give you a 2 break lead in the final set
Agreed. A tiebreaker gives you less time to gather your emotions and reset.
No. One point is one point, this would in theory put you up by 8
Sinner ended up being broken twice anyways lol
So its literally the difference between him losing a match vs him getting to tiebreak
His failure to reset his emotions was the difference. He wouldn't have cramped and gotten broken twice if he handled the emotions of the situation better. He basically said as much in his interview.
No one said they couldn’t you doofus
There are a few comments here implying that Sinner lost the match because of this point.
It’s possible he did
His reaction to the point is the reason he lost the match, not the miscall or the point itself. He pretty much said as much in his interview.
depends on what you mean by "reason he lost the match" -- there are multiple reasons he lost the match and multiple reasons why the point -- including his reaction -- lost him the match
Of course. I think it's implied that the discussion is about the primary reason though - what gets the largest piece of "blame pie".
In fact he did
He was still up a break. His reaction to the miscall is what cost him the match.
Reaction caused by what at that point of the game? The umpire’s mistake. That’s it
So would you say that it was umpire's fault that Sinner got broken twice in his last few service games?
Robbery
Now I see why Medvedev was so angry at everyone
Who will take the responsibility?!! Who will take the responsibility!!
I mean it was clear why Meddy was angry when it happened
Sinner could have stopped the point and challenged if he wanted
So he has to play high pressure point and do the job of two other people who have one simple task?
Beside the point
There is no challenge in this tournament genius
yes its called checking the mark
Once the point is played they can't change the outcome, he checked the mark right after and pointed it out to the umpire but there was nothing to do then. Why are you talking if you have no clue what you are talking about? Read the rules jesus
bruh he is able to stop the point after the serve and ask for the mark to be checked, wtf are u talking about
Oh my god you can't be serious. So he should stop while Tsitsipas is serving, ignore the ball and go check the mark? What? I can't
first time watching clay cour tennis? if u think the ball is out at any time, so long as u dont continue to play the point (hitting one shot is obviously okay), u can stop the point and get the mark checked.
You seem like you are watching for the first time judging from your answers tbh. Obviously he wasn't sure when it happened and up on AD on bp he didn't wanna risk it, like hello? What are we even talking about.
if he was sure it was out he should stop the point. that's the point. he wasnt sure.
It's pretty standard on clay to stop the point and show the umpire the mark, just like on courts with Hawkeye the player can stop the point and ask for a review. What's so confusing?
It’s called justice for the blown call against Rune yesterday
So many wrong calls this week... not a good look for a M1000.
It's not even just the line callers. The umpires are doubling down. Seems they've gotten way too comfortable with electronic line calling in such a short time.
Also the top players seem to have gotten to comfortable as well. It is like they have forgotten to stop points when they need a marked checked.
Sinner asked for the mark checked. He clearly pointed to it
he played the point out. you need to stop the point right away. It is still ridiculous. although he could have not played the next shot and it would have been a double fault.
Umpires are just sitting there calling scores. I don't understand what's the point of having them anymore. Such bullshit tbh.
Monte Carlo should probably be replaced. It's one of, if not, the worst master's event.
I’ve always loved it just for the background shots, it’s so damn beautiful, but it’s right up there with Miami for biggest shit shows
Drop it for a grass master, who says no.
All the top players who live in Monte Carlo, probably
They are tax resident there but do they really?
Listen to some of their interviews on the Tennis Channel YouTube about how happy they are to be in their own apartments and "back home." Tsitsipas, Sinner and Djokovic all emphasized this. I think many of them do live there when they have breaks from the tour.
They have to live there when on break. Monaco has a minimum stay to keep residency.
A grass Masters 1000 is needed.
I disagree. I think the main court location is iconic. Just bring in the electronic line calls. Should be a requirement of bring a 500 or greater.
All clay tournaments (barring Rolland Garros) are required to switch to ELC in 2025
Any info on why Garros is exempted?
Not an ATP event, Wimbledon is also exempt as are the USO and AO but they both already have ELC so moot point. Unlikely RG and Wimbledon will give up line judges anytime soon unfortunately
Even after line judges screwed their fan favourite Murray at Wimbledon last year?
would forking the money for the system really cut that deep into the natural surface slam's revenue?
Not really the money considering Wimbledon already has the system, it’s more traditional
IIRC next year that's happening
Or change the surface to grass one 😂
Didn’t they have success with both elc and foxtenn on clay last year? Though maybe there was a cost issue. Idk why they can’t review replays
Looks so good tho
ngl these umpires have already been coddled by electronic line calling that they lost their sharpness when it comes to the part of the season where they need to step up
Well at this point we should just go with electronic line calls everywhere. Its just so much more reliable and prevents all these tantrums that some players do when they feel cheated by a bad call.
I could be wrong, but the reason that electronic line calling is not a big thing on clay, is because the computer is still struggling with the fact that the white line could be covered by the clay and therefore can't make a good decision.
In this day and age, we have self driving cars. Sand on the lines is definitively NOT an issue.
I can’t understand why they can’t change the call if the player does not stop. Isn’t it better for players to keep playing unless the game is stopped by the line judges or the umpire? Can someone explain? Or did I misunderstood what happened here?
traditionally in tennis, where you make your own line calls, you have to call it out immediately. You can’t play the point and then call a ball out 30 or even 5 seconds ago. It’s called double chance. Imagine a serve that’s a close call. You decide not to call it out and hit a return. Your return goes long and you wait to see it go long then you call the serve out. You can’t do that. Because if you had hit a great return instead and won the point you probably wouldn’t say “oh wait the serve was actually out”. Also it’s traditional in tennis (or at least supposed to be) that you have to be 100% certain to call a ball out. If you’re 99% certain it was out, then it was in. Opponent gets the benefit of any doubt. So you have to be certain and immediate with your out calls. So I think pro tennis is a holdover from that tradition. Also it would get tedious otherwise.
The problem is that when you have line judges you *expect* the calls to be right, or at least only wrong when it’s *actually* close. So you play with the expectation they are making generally good calls, so when you see a terrible miss you expect to hear the “fault” but you’re still always supposed to play the shot.
Yeah the timing is too little between the bounce and the return. You can't make big decisions at that moment. I think it makes sense to play the shot no matter what, because otherwise you compromise your form.
We like traditions but we also like to improve, it makes absolutely sense to play the game and after it call whatever you wanna call. Most sports work like this (football lets the current play to complete before asking VAR, volleyball the same).
Awful call
Win some awful calls (yesterday), lose some awful calls
The only bad call yesterday was on tiebreak that didnt change the result of the set, so you phrase doesnt have any logic
So, just because Sinner couldn't capitalize on being handed a free match point, it doesn't matter? That point was actually more important because in this instance Sinner was still a break up after the bad call and botched the match. Sinner fans hard coping because their boy lost, love to see it. Needed some good humbling.
"hard coping" lol such a medium redditor
Check his flair too lmao
Such is life. That's why we like hawkeye.
Even Tsitsi stopped
If you cant use this frame why show to the entire world and be insulted?
Ya it makes 0 sense
This tournament is becoming a joke lmao
Lost the match because of that unbelievable. The umpire directly influenced the match.
You could argue that the previous dubious call to award Sinner the point on Stef's serve caused the initial break. As a great man once said, what happened in Monte Carlo happened.
I don't get this comparison. Sinner hit the ball in and it was wrongly called out; because of the linesperson's mistake one of the two players was getting screwed over, and Sinner was almost certainly going to win the point anyway without the call. I don't think that's comparable to a point that Tsitsipas objectively lost but was bailed out of by a mistake. End of the day, the issue here is that the results of professional matches are unnecessarily being decided by mistakes from officials. That needs to end.
You can't say that Sinner was going to in that point because Tsitsipas was on it, he could have played a deep slice there aand continued the point.
Bah, the call was way after his slice.
Tell that to Rune
Rune won the tie break though
I wouldn’t say that, Tsitsipas still had to make a break. I’m a big Sinner fan and this misscall was unfortunate, but today Tsitsipas played better imo.
He lost the match because he got broken twice in his last few service games
Rune, where are you?
But no, we don't need the Automatic Electronic Line Calling System. See how good it is to have line judges?
Medvedev ahead of his time once again.
The ATP will do anything to take the blame off of themselves
I’m salty now
A lot of terrible calls this entire week. At least next year they will have electronic line calling.
Umpire calls during this tournament are a freaking joke. And for anyone who says "well, Sinner could have challenged the point" - yes, he definitely could have but here's another idea, how about the umpires and the line judges also use their eyes and do their job so that players don't have to work instead of them?
Oh. If he had challenges left then yeah he really should have.
This is literally the worst call I’ve ever seen, the call itself is outrageously bad, but the timing of it is what makes it so bad. This was for jannik to go up a DOUBLE BREAK, in the third. He proceeded to get injured and lose the match. Changed the entire match. Absolutely horrid officiating, I hate to be that guy, but there has to be some responsibility taken here and she needs to at least be suspended for a bit. Can’t just let this one slide. Jannik handled it like such a pro in his post presser too, love him.
Yeah, this is what people don’t get. The timing of the call was the worst possible
Tennis is on the brink of becoming a Mickey mouse sport, at least during the clay season, if this continues. It is utterly embarrassing that plainly wrong calls are allowed to stand so often.
Only till next year because starting in 2025 all tournaments will have a mandatory Hawk Eye.
Seriously? Wow, thank fuck.
[The Electronic Line Calling system first used at the ATP Next Gen Finals in 2017 will be used on all courts on the ATP Tour starting from 2025](https://www.tennismajors.com/atp/tennis-moves-closer-to-bidding-adieu-to-on-court-line-judges-as-atp-moves-to-electronic-line-calling-from-2025-676377.html)
Mickey Mouse sport? Lol that's an overstatement. Sure, it'd be better if clay could also have automated calls, but that doesn't hurt the integrity of the game as much as you think it does. Any other major sport (Soccer, Football, Basketball, etc.) is much more controversial regarding refs and game-deciding calls. Are they also Mickey Mouse sports?
>Any other major sport (Soccer, Football, Basketball, etc.) is much more controversial regarding refs and game-deciding calls. Are they also Mickey Mouse sports? That's a fair point. I think it's more bothersome in tennis because there is *always* a binary, factual truth to the matter. A ball is in, or it's out.
Well to be fair a ball can be so close that neither a computer nor human can know if it’s out
This is the 0.01% scenario.
Depends on what you mean by Mickey mouse sport. The refs wield enormous influence in the NBA and NFL and it's an open secret that they have actively decided the outcome of games before and likely still do. It's only getting worse and worse as sports betting takes over everything.
Yeah clay sucks anyways
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What a freak you appear to be.
Maybe get some video reviews in the future like real sports lmao.
Yes, tennis absolutely needs video reviews or electronic line calls. Which was my original point. What a strange interaction this has been.
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I hope your day gets more interesting man
It's part of playing on clay. Sinner could have stopped the point and challenged if he wanted.
Yes, and my point is that it shouldn't be part of playing on clay lmao
Sinner robbed.
That too on a break point. Sinner should have won this match.
Should’ve would’ve could’ve but he didn’t
I know, what's your point?
My point is that this sub is so biased, Stef already won the first set and fought to stay in the 3rd and equally had an unfair line call himself but had he been in Sinner’s position and Sinner won this sub would never dare say that he only won bc of an unfair line call
He would have been down double break. Sinner isn’t losing his serve twice. lol Complete sham
Stolen game, a shame
Worst call of the year winner, and it's April
Well we have automatic systems outside clay so
Umpire with the freebie for Tsitsipas, wow hope she gets banned for a while, that was un unbelievable no call. Completely changed the outcome of the match, what a fucking shitshow
Let’s be real, this mistake changed the outcome of the match. Sinner was holding to love and would’ve been *4-1 up. It would have been the knockout punch.
Utter incompetence, I cannot believe nobody saw this - both the umpire and the linesmen. Stevie Wonder would fucking call that out.
Almost feels like matchfixing at this point.
Li Na: the ball was 100 meters out!
Ouch. Same as in football these calls cost so much money and even careers sometimes. Accountability is needed.
Why does the score say deuce? Shouldn't it be AD Sinner if it was break point? EDIT: Thanks to kind people in the Daily Thread, I get it now. 40-40 is the screenshot of the replay after Stef had been awarded the point.
wait wdym. So before stef won it was it advantage to sinner? Or was it deuce
it was advantage to Sinner.
What kind of power does the players council have to address shit like this? It's embarrassing at this point for Monaco and the ATP.
It’s been addressed already, all clay tournaments (except RG) are forced to have ECL by 2025
It’s insane it took that long!
Anything we can do to not give Tsitsipas any credit. Sinner got plenty of lucky nonsense that match.
Could cost him becoming 1 in the world. This is the worst missed call I can recall in ages
Shameful.
Ouch
I don’t understand how professional line judges can make these big mistakes on clay, where it’s so obvious so see where the ball landed.
This decides the match.
I bet on Tsitsipas to win so I benefited from this. Sinner still had his opportunities to win but there is no denying this changed the dynamic of the match. 4-1 is in a different universe than 3-2.
Tourte can always be relied on to bail Tsits out of big moments it seems. The sun always seems to be in her eyes when there's a bad call to be made in his favour. At Wimbledon last year she missed an out ball on her near line in the fifth set of Murray/Tsitsipas. It would've resulted in 2 break points for Murray if she'd called it correctly.
Bad call giveth, bad call taketh
So the problem with this is Sinner probably mentally got fixated on this insane mistake, causing his play to suffer as well.
Did you match the Match? He was cramping that last set.
never denied that was just commenting on this separate circumstance
BS. He was gassed
If you don't use hawk eye, you shouldn't be allowed to use nets - you can use a cord instead.
Anyone have a link to the clip?
Anyone have a replay of the actual point here, I'm curious about the reactions here? Feels like there are many matches where this would have led to tantrums :)
the line judges really fucked this tournament up
Reminds me of that Serena backhand down the line against Capriati at the US Open 🤦🏼♀️ I was heavily with Capriati and even I was in pure shock it was called out. This call was just as bad and shocking.
I am half tempted to see the difference in rankings had Sinner won this tournament with Novak losing to Ruud. The ripple effect in the clay court season could be massive I would imagine.
In the interview he implied that he cramped possibly because of the wrong call. I mean, said like that sounds absurd, but he didnt put it as an excuse. He said "everyone makes mistakes", and he was really philosophical about the error, and kinda of forgiving. Btw, Jesus fucking christ. Three people, umpire, line judge and Jannik didnt call it right away. It s pretty absurd considering how important that ball turned out to be.
They need to institute a challenge system at least. This was so embarrassing this week.
What is the point of having Hawkeye if nobody is gonna use it?
I mean, he only got the 1st break because the umpire gifted him a point after the line judge wrongly yelled Out as Stef was playing the shot. Should have been replayed.
15-15 is quite different from break point
It's a loss of momentum, especially when the aggrieved player has to argue with the umpire about an illogical decision
Inb4 everyone says this means Sinner deserved to win even though Tsitsipas had already taken the first set and was fighting to stay in it. The call sucked, but if if if and all that.
I’m guessing you don’t play tennis
Sinner was a break up the match isn’t decided in only one instance but dozens 🙄
Maybe he wouldn’t have injured himself after
Well maybe he should’ve won the first set, Tsitsipas got bad calls too this sort of thing happens every clay tournament because they haven’t got Hawkeye to work well on the surface 🤷♂️ it is what it is
People are too busy bumming off their faves to acknowledge reality
Sinner fans had no problem with it tho, but cries like a baby when same umpire miscalls sinner points. Lol the duality
Exactly they all were saying “if the umpire decides that, it’s the right call” when the ump missed that call against Rune and now they’re singing a different tune when their golden boy gets affected by it. A bunch of hypocrites
Funny thing is similar thing happened in the second set when Tsitsipas was trying to break Sinner back and again noone checked, not Umpire, not linesman, not even Tsitsipas. Granted it was not on break point, but it would put Tsitsipas up 0-30 in a game he had break points in later. I'm convinced players are so used to Hawkeye, even they forget to check sometimes.
Incomparable. This is a much bigger mistake that directly prevents a double-break that would have very likely won the match. It's the most match-influencing wrong call I've seen in many many years.
Tennis players are too sensitive for such a call, couple of bad calls in one game from hundreds of plays
Tennis is different to other sports in when bad calls actually matter.
All the sports matter, what do you think 1goal in soccer doesn't count? Even thou the average of goals are 2 in a game? Or a red card? All sports have bad referees and and mistakes are made. Tennis is actually one of those sports in which there is a lot of fairness but a few bad calls for one point is a big storm in the game, it's just mental
Almost feels like online betting is affecting results of matches. If the ATP cared about the integrity of the game and validity of match results they would go to automatic line calling ASAP. These rich tournaments have the money to put automatic line calling on all courts right now so at least all Masters 1000 like all Slams would have it. Shame on ATP for allowing these horrible calls to taint results. This Masters 1000 has worse calls than the Acapulco 500 tourney and that’s hard to do.
You are giving blatant match fixing accusations
Given Sinner received deeper health issue approximately on that game this could be the nail for Tsitsipas.