Jelena Ostapenko gives serious sideye to electronic line calling after ...
The former Roland Garros champion admitted she lacks full faith in the revolutionary system after overcoming Coco Gauff to reach her first major quarterfinal in almost five years.
Even umpire James Keothavong couldn’t help but laugh as the conspiratorial 25-year-old outlined her logic in the moment, which often involves help from her team.
“Honestly, this live electronic system, I don’t know,” she said after defeating Gauff in straight sets, 7-5, 6-3. “Sometimes it feels like it makes some mistakes. Of course, we have to play. Sometimes I look at my team because I know I’m wrong, but I feel like some balls are pretty close, so I want to know what they think about the call.”
When you hit as many winners as Ostapenko—30 against Gauff alone on Saturday—it’s hard not to go on feeling over fact.
“Sometimes it’s one centimeter out, which is like ‘Wow,’ but in the deciding moments, I think it went in and that’s the most important.”
Ostapenko took the exchange in stride as she headed into her first Grand Slam quarterfinal since 2018; awaiting her there is reigning Wimbledon champion Elena Rybakina, who ousted world No. 1 Iga Swiatek in straight sets.
