Tourte Draws Fire Over Sinner Delay at 5-4, 0-40 in Roland Garros Loss
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Updated · Clay - Historias de tenis · May 28
Tourte Draws Fire Over Sinner Delay at 5-4, 0-40 in Roland Garros Loss
7 articles · Updated · Clay - Historias de tenis · May 28
Aurélie Tourte was criticized after stepping down from the chair to discuss Jannik Sinner’s condition at 5-4, 0-40 instead of immediately enforcing the shot clock in his match against Juan Manuel Cerundolo.
Jim Courier said the exchange was unfair to Cerundolo because Sinner had already exceeded the allotted time; Mary Joe Fernandez agreed that chair umpires do not usually outline a player’s options in that way.
Sinner told Tourte he felt dizzy and later left for treatment, but the unusual intervention revived scrutiny of whether top players receive special handling even when no formal dispute follows.
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