🎾CONTROVERSIAL CALL COSTS FELIX AUGER-ALIASSIME

Tennis should be under review after Felix Auger-Aliassime loses match on missed call
Félix Auger-Aliassime, and cost him a match against English left-hander Jack Draper.
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Auger-Aliassime’s disbelief was expressed with a wide smile, as though the umpire was joking. “I would replay it if there was a replay,” Draper said to the chair umpire, seeming momentarily to indicate he wasn’t sure whether he had hit the ball legally.
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Tennis may have electronic line calls. But, for the most part, it doesn’t have replay review.
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Once Allensworth made his decision, there was no way to officially review the play, and deliver a correct ruling. The only “out” would have been for Draper to acknowledge what he had done, and to concede the point to Auger-Aliassime. Tennis has a long history of players doing just that, giving the point to an opponent when it was obvious a call had been missed.
But Draper, in a decision that will surely haunt him, had no intention of doing that. “Jack, you know,” said Auger-Aliassime as he approached the net. “When you hit it, you knew where it went.”
Of course Draper knew. But the Englishman chose to play dumb, and instead repeatedly said he was looking at Auger-Aliassime and not the ball, although replays showed that wasn’t true either.
“He shanked it on the floor,” Auger-Aliassime said to the umpire. “It’s your place to make that call.”
It’s embarrassing that we don’t have video replay of these kind of situations on the court. What’s even more ridiculous is that we don’t have the rule in place that would allow chair umpires to change the original call based on the video review that happens off the court! Everyone who watches TV sees what happened on the replay, yet the players on the court are kept in “dark” not knowing what’s the outcome. We have Hawkeye for line calls, we live in the technologically advanced 21st century! Please 🙏 respective Tours, make sure this nonsense never happens again!
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ATP supervisor Roland Herfel explains a controversial match-ending point to Felix Auger-Aliassime and his British opponent, Jack Draper, at the Cincinnati Open on Thursday. Draper won the deciding point despite his shot appearing to hit the court before it went over the net.
That this would happen to tennis, of all sports, is rather bizarre. If there’s a sport that has seemed to be well ahead of the curve when it came to using high-tech methods to eliminate mistakes on judgment calls, it is tennis.
Remember all those lively and often nasty on-court arguments featuring the likes of Ilie Nastase and John “You Cannot Be Serious!” McEnroe? Long a thing of the past.
Mostly those were arguments over line calls. But once tennis moved to using Hawkeye technology and other means of electronically deciding whether balls were in or out, there really wasn’t much left to argue about.
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