Gauff blasts broadcasters over privacy after Australian Open racket smash

Coco Gauff, who mislaid to Elina Svitolina successful the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, was filmed smashing her racket.

Coco Gauff looked for a spot without cameras to transmission her vexation aft a straight-sets nonaccomplishment to Elina Svitolina successful the Australian Open quarterfinals, but was unhappy to find retired that a video of her smashing her tennis racket ⁠on the level was broadcast to viewers worldwide.

Twice Grand Slam victor Gauff was visibly upset ​with her show connected Tuesday, arsenic she committed 26 unforced errors and ‍lost the lucifer 6-1 6-2 successful 59 minutes.

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The American 3rd effect went down a partition adjacent the lucifer telephone country wrong the venue, wherever a camera caught her hitting the racket repeatedly against the floor.

“I ‍tried to spell ⁠somewhere wherever determination were nary cameras,” the 21-year-old told reporters.

“I benignant of person a happening with the broadcast. I consciousness similar definite moments – the aforesaid happening happened to Aryna [Sabalenka] aft I played her successful the last of the US Open – I consciousness similar they don’t request to broadcast.”

World fig 1 Sabalenka, who volition instrumentality connected Svitolina successful the semifinals, had smashed her racket successful a grooming country aft ​losing to Gauff successful the 2023 US Open final, and video ‌of the incidental was besides made public.

“I tried to spell determination wherever they wouldn’t broadcast it, but evidently they did. Maybe immoderate conversations tin beryllium had, due to the fact that I consciousness similar astatine this tourney the lone backstage ‌place we person is the locker room,” Gauff added.

“I deliberation for me, I cognize myself, and I don’t privation to lash retired ‌on my team. They’re bully people. They don’t merit ⁠that, and I cognize I’m emotional,” Gauff said.

“I conscionable took the infinitesimal to spell and bash that. I don’t deliberation it’s a atrocious thing. Like I said, I don’t effort to bash it connected tribunal successful beforehand of ‌kids and things similar that, but I bash cognize I request to fto retired that emotion.

“Otherwise, I’m conscionable going to beryllium snappy with the radical astir me, and I don’t privation ‍to bash that, due to the fact that similar I said, they don’t merit it. They did their best. I did mine. Just request to fto the vexation out.”