Star's scheduling gripe after 'mental tiredness'

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In the aftermath of her straight-sets nonaccomplishment to Elena Rybakina, Jelena Ostapenko labelled her determination to play mixed doubles the nighttime anterior a atrocious call.

"I felt similar possibly mixed doubles yesterday was not the close determination to play that late," she told media aft losing her singles 4th last connected Monday.

Ostapenko and her spouse David Vega Hernandez were scheduled to play their second-round mixed doubles lucifer astatine 8pm connected Monday.

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Finishing precocious into the evening, Ostapenko was backmost astatine Melbourne Park astatine 10am connected Tuesday to hole for her 4th final.

Asked if the abbreviated turnaround impacted her performance, Ostapenko said she felt "mental tiredness" during the match.

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"[When] I came [back] to my room, it was astir 10pm and I truly didn't get overmuch slumber due to the fact that I had to play astatine 12:30pm [the adjacent day]," she said.

"All these things possibly were not the close decision, I don't know, oregon possibly the scheduling could beryllium a small better.

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"But it is arsenic it is. It's already successful the past."

Despite a nervy decorativeness to the 2nd set, 22nd effect Rybakina held connected to decision Ostapenko, 6-2, 6-4, successful 1 hr and 20 minutes connected Rod Laver Arena.

During the match, the Latvian prima again showed her vexation astatine the physics line-calling strategy successful spot astatine the Australian Open.

Ostapenko antecedently criticised the process aft defeating Coco Gauff successful the 4th round.

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"Honestly, I'm not truly blessed with the strategy they are using," she told media.

"[A] mates times it was really, like, not adjacent by mates centimetres. It was [missing by] overmuch much than that.

"But I cannot bash thing astir it, due to the fact that it is the mode arsenic it is.

"But I consciousness similar immoderate lines, sometimes the strategy is... not ignoring, but sometimes the calls are...

"First of all, they 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 not a small out. They were a spot retired and they were not called."

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