ガウフ、テニス界のビデオ検証なしは「ばかげている」 全仏ＯＰ

【パリＡＦＰ＝時事】女子テニスのココ・ガウフ（米国）は６日、イガ・シフィオンテク（ポーランド）に敗れた全仏オープンの女子シングルス準決勝の試合後、物議を醸す判定にはビデオ検証を使うべきだと主張した。ガウフはこの試合で主審と激しく口論する一幕があった。（写真は全仏オープンテニス、女子シングルス準決勝。試合に臨むココ・ガウフ）
　問題の場面があったのは第２セットの第４ゲーム。当初「アウト」とコールされたシフィオンテクのサーブについて、主審が判定を覆してシフィオンテクにポイントを与えた。ガウフのリターンは大きくラインを割っていたが、ガウフは線審のコールを聞いてから返球したと抗議していた。
　コート・フィリップ・シャトリエの観客がやじを飛ばす中、ガウフは主審に対して「彼らがブーイングしているのは、あなたが間違っているから」「こういうことが起きるのは、これで２度目。これは四大大会（グランドスラム）の準決勝。試合のルールを理解すべき」と言い放った。
　全米オープン女王のガウフは、結局このゲームのブレークに成功したものの、試合には２－６、４－６で敗れた。
　試合後には報道陣に対し、審判がテクノロジーを使わずに１人でこうした判定を下すことがないようルール変更が必要だと主張。「他の競技では、判定を下すのにたいてい複数の審判がいる」「確か、全米オープンでは昨年、部分的に導入されたはず。自分もダブルスの試合で、それを利用した覚えがある」と指摘し、「いまさらそれがないなんて、ばかげていると言ってもいい」と述べた。
　さらに、「自分に起きたから言っているわけではない。どの競技にもそういうシステムがあるという話。選手として、後からネットで見たりして自分が正しかったと知るのは最悪」とし、「スポーツとして進化が必要。テクノロジーはある。テレビでは（リプレーを）見せているのに、選手が見れないのは理解できない」と語った。【翻訳編集ＡＦＰＢＢＮｅｗｓ】

〔ＡＦＰ＝時事〕（2024/06/07-18:27）

Coco Gauff called for video replays to be used for contentious decisions in tennis after having a heated exchange with the chair umpire during her French Open semi-final loss to Iga Swiatek on Thursday.
In the fourth game of the second set of Gauff's 6-2, 6-4 defeat, the umpire overruled a call of 'out' for a Swiatek serve, before awarding the world number one the point.
Gauff protested that the original call from the line judge came before she had completed her attempted return which went wide.
They're booing because you're wrong, Gauff told the umpire as the Court Philippe Chatrier crowd jeered.
This is the second time this has happened. It's a Grand Slam semi-final. Know the rules of the game.
Gauff went on to break Swiatek's serve in that game anyway, but later told reporters that changes should be made so that such decisions were not made by one person without the use of any technology.
In other sports there's usually multiple refs in making a decision, the US Open champion said.
I know the US Open brought some of it last year, I believe. I know we used it in our doubles at one point.
I definitely think at this point it's almost ridiculous that we don't have it.
Not also just speaking because that happened to me, but I just think every sport has it... There are so many decisions that are made, and it sucks as a player to go back or online and you see that you were completely right...
I definitely think as a sport we have to evolve, and we have the technology. They're showing it on TV, so I don't get why the player can't see it.
That service break gave Gauff a 3-1 lead in the second set, but it was one-way traffic from there as Swiatek powered into her fourth Roland Garros final and an 11th win in 12 matches against the American.
It was just one of those moments, but I overcame it. I obviously won that game, added the 20-year-old Gauff, who will become world number two next week.
I usually don't get too frustrated with decisions like that, but I think it was just a combination of everything going on in the moment.
Swiatek, who is one win away from a third straight Roland Garros title, admitted having replays would be easier.
I think it would be easier to have the replay, but... I don't know how it would look like logistically, she said. When can you ask an umpire to call a video replay or when it's up to her to do that.