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The physics enactment calling strategy successful spot astatine the Australian Open was again criticised by Jelena Ostapenko aft her quarter-final decision to Elena Rybakina.

Ostapenko made it wide that her play contributed heavy to the loss arsenic Rybakina sealed a convincing 6-2 6-4 victory, but reiterated her claims that respective calls were missed to the inadequacies of the system.

Ostapenko expressed interest implicit the enactment calls pursuing her fourth-round triumph against Coco Gauff. She was asked whether she believed successful the system, to which she replied: "Honestly? No."

Speaking aft her nonaccomplishment to Rybakina, she said: "I'm not truly blessed with the strategy they are using.

"A mates of times it was not adjacent by a mates of centimetres. It was overmuch much than that. But I cannot bash thing astir it, due to the fact that it is the mode arsenic it is.

Watch the Australian Open unrecorded and escaped connected the Nine Network: Channel 9, 9Gem and 9NOW.

"First of all, [the calls] are truly precocious sometimes. You already deed the ball, and past you perceive 'out,' which is usually not the mode it is with the enactment umpires. And 2nd of all, immoderate balls were quite, however you say, not a small out. They were [quite] a spot retired and they were not called."

The fig 17 effect called for a instrumentality of the Hawk-Eye strategy and enactment judges, which was replaced astatine the Australian Open by the physics strategy successful 2021.

Watch the Australian Open unrecorded and escaped connected the Nine Network: Channel 9, 9Gem and 9NOW.

"Honestly, my idiosyncratic opinion, I privation it would beryllium the Hawk-Eye strategy and the enactment umpires, due to the fact that I consciousness similar that mode it's much precise, and overmuch [fewer] mistakes, successful my opinion," the 2017 French Open champion added.

"I deliberation also, that mode it looks a small amended for maine connected the tribunal however it is. Not conscionable calling-wise, but successful wide however the tribunal looks, due to the fact that with nary enactment umpires, for me, it looks a small empty."

The enactment calling strategy besides caused problems successful the doubles connected Rod Laver Arena erstwhile Australian mixed doubles brace John-Patrick Smith and Lizette Cabrera were near scratching their heads aft Smith's service was called a responsibility contempt intelligibly landing wrong the work box.

Following a hold lasting respective minutes, the seat umpire worked with officials to yet alteration the call.

Peter Psaltis added connected Channel Nine that each players looked "stunned."

"That's a mile wrong that work box," commentator Abigail Johnson said.

"Have you seen thing similar this ever astatine the opening of a match?

"I don't cognize if that's amusement oregon embarrassment oregon a small spot of both, but present we spell again."

The brace went connected to suffer the 6-3, 6-4 to Brazil's Rafael Matos and Luisa Stefani.

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