Jelena Ostapenko has been criticised for her chilly handshake with Elena Rybakina after her quarter-final loss within the Australian Open.
The Latvian seventeenth seed was outclassed 6-2 6-4 by Elena Rybakina on Tuesday because the reigning Wimbledon champion continued her cost in the direction of one other grand slam title.
Ostapenko minimize a pissed off determine for all the match, complaining in regards to the dwell digital expertise and gesturing that the road calls have been means off.
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After Rybakina sealed victory with an ace, Ostapenko barely made eye contact together with her opponent, giving her a really chilly handshake on the web.
Viewers observed the 2017 French Open champion, who has a historical past of icy handshakes after her matches, couldn’t get off the court docket fast sufficient.
Legendary American coach Brad Gilbert tweeted: “Wow how quick to Penko just walk straight off the courts.”
The incident introduced again recollections of a reasonably frosty handshake between Andy Murray and Roberto Bautista-Agut after their third spherical match.
The fired up Spaniard and the shattered Brit slapped arms and barely made eye-contact as the 2 didn’t trade any phrases earlier than shaking the chair umpires hand.
Ostapenko had rediscovered career-best on the Australian Open, however the 25-year-old has repeatedly acknowledged she has no religion in anyway within the ball monitoring expertise that has changed human linespeople.
“I’m not really happy with the system they are using,” Ostapenko mentioned in her post-match press convention.
“But couple times it was really, like, not even by couple of centimetres.
“It was much more than that. But I cannot do anything about it, because it is the way as it is,” she mentioned.
“But I feel like some lines, sometimes the system is not, how you say, not ignoring, but sometimes the calls are — first of all, they are really late sometimes.
“You already hit the ball, and then you hear ‘out’, which is normally not the way it is with the line umpires.
“And second of all, some balls were quite, how you say, not a little out. They were a bit out and they were not called.
“Honestly, in my personal opinion, I wish it would be the Hawk Eye system and the line umpires, because I feel like that way it’s more precise and (with) much less mistakes, in my opinion.”
Ostapenko mentioned she’d even prefer to see the return of linespeople.
“To have just the Hawk Eye system, because this is the live system, but to have a Hawk Eye but still have the line umpires,” she mentioned.
“I think it’s also, I don’t know, that way it looks a little better for me on the court how it is.
“Not just the calling-wise but in general how the court looks. Because with no line umpires, for me it looks a little empty.”
Rybakina will face two-time Australian Open Victorian Azarenka within the semi-finals on Thursday.
