YOU CANNOT WIN EM ALL COOC SROP WHINING ........... BOO HOO SOB

 

You see    you just cannot win em all and  she was  crying  like a little  girl ......that is nbecasue she is a  little  girl ...........losing is  goo  for the  soul....when you are up your   up   when you lose    .....take it .....you had a  bad day .....as the song  goes ........next time  ........

Tearful Gauff Complains of Being ‘Cheated’ as She Crashes Out of Olympic Singles

Philippe Naughton

Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 9:32 AM EDT·2 min read

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A tearful Coco Gauff complained of being “constantly cheated” as she was dumped from the Paris Olympic singles tennis tournament on Tuesday.

The world No. 2, chosen by teammates to carry the Team USA flag in Friday’s opening parade down the Seine, was trailing 7-6 3-2 to Croatia’s Donna Vekic in a thrillingly tight third-round contest.

Gauff was facing a huge break point at 30-40 and was going for a backhand return when a line judge called the ball out—causing her to slow down in her swing and miss the shot.

The chair umpire overruled the line judge, awarding the point to Vekic, who went on to win 7-6 6-2.

The American immediately ran to the umpire’s chair to complain that she had been robbed of the point.

“For me, the call didn’t affect your shot,” the umpire replied.

“He called it out before I hit it. That’s why I went up on the ball,” Gauff retorted.

There followed a a five-minute argument in which Gauff insisted that the tournament supervisor come to the court and, according to USA Today, complained: “I feel like I’m getting cheated constantly in this game.”

It’s the 20-year-old’s first Olympic outing, after she was forced to drop out of the Tokyo Games at the last minute because she contracted COVID-19, and she had been seen as one of the favorites on the Roland-Garros clay.

But Vekic, world No. 22 and a losing semifinalist at Wimbledon, produced perhaps the best performance of her career, deploying fearsome ground strokes to fight her way back into the match after trailing 5-2 in the first set.

Gauff is still a contender in the women’s and mixed doubles.

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2024 Paris Olympics: Coco Gauff falls to Donna Vekić after tearful argument with chair umpire

Sean Leahy · Liz Roscher

Tue, Jul 30, 2024, 11:24 AM EDT·3 min read

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US' Coco Gauff speaks with an official after a call goes against her while playing Croatia's Donna Vekic during their women's singles third round tennis match. (Photo by PATRICIA DE MELO MOREIRA/AFP via Getty Images)

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Coco Gauff's Olympic dreams in singles tennis have come to an end. Her Round 3 competitor, Croatia's Donna Vekić, defeated Gauff 7-6(7), 6-2. It is Vekić, not Gauff, who will be continuing on to the quarterfinals for a chance to win an Olympic gold medal.

It was looking like Gauff was going to cruise to the next round early on after going up 4-1 in the opening set. But Vekić fought back and forced a tie-break before eventually going ahead.

It was the first time in the tournament that Gauff had dropped a set.

Things didn't get better from there. She didn't have the same oomph she did in the first set, and then an argument with the chair umpire scrambled the match for good.

After that, it didn't take long for Vekić to capture the win.

After the match, Gauff called for tennis to use video play like other sports.

"There's been multiple times this year where that's happened to me — where I felt like I always have to be an advocate for myself on the court," Gauff told reporters afterward.

"I felt that he called it before I hit, and I don't think the ref disagreed. I think he just thought it didn't affect my swing, which I felt like it did."

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Gauff's first-round victory over Australia's Ajla Tomljanović made her the youngest American woman to win in Olympic singles since Venus Williams in 2000. She beat Argentina's Maria Lourdes Carle in the second round to set up Tuesday's match against Vekić.

It had been quite an Olympics for the 20-year-old Gauff. She was named one of the two U.S. flag bearers at the Opening Ceremony along with NBA star LeBron James and is also winner of the Olympic pin game, thanks to Snoop Dogg.

Vekić will next face the winner of the match between Marta Kostyuk and Maria Sakkari with a spot in the semifinals on the line. Gauff still has matches in doubles and mixed doubles.