“What a disgrace both umpire and Bencic” Tennis Twitter roll their eyes over an umpiring blunder against Sloane Stephens and Belinda Bencic’s ignorance over it

“What a disgrace both umpire and Bencic” Tennis Twitter roll their eyes over an umpiring blunder against Sloane Stephens and Belinda Bencic’s ignorance over it

Sloane Stephens and Belinda Bencic with the umpire

In the second round of the Guadalajara Open, an inspired Sloane Stephens eased past Olympic champion Belinda Bencic in straight sets 6-4,6-4 to move into the Round of 16. Stephens hasn’t performed particularly well this season but is on a roll this week. She also defeated 6th seed Caroline Garcia in the third round in straight sets to make it to the last 8 where she’ll face third seed Jessica Pegula.

But during her fairly easy second-round clash against Bencic, she was a victim of a very poor umpiring blunder. After Stephens won the opening set, both players started the second set with a lot of intensity and were ruthless on serve. Bencic was trying her best to hold while Stephens was pushing for a break. During one of the rallies in the fifth game, the lines judge called one of Bencic’s balls out. The Swiss was quick to challenge the call which turned out to be correct as the ball had landed in.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY1W1pXsm2g

After the call was overturned, chair umpire Marija Cicak straightaway gave the point to Bencic to everyone’s shock. Stephens had returned the disputed ball well and according to the rules, the point should’ve been replayed because the ball was still in play. But Cicak thought Stephens missed the shot and didn’t even bother to check the replay. This was a huge umpiring blunder.

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Stephens was also very confused with the call but didn’t argue much because even she wasn’t sure if she played the ball in or not. Eventually, she got the decisive break a few minutes later and went on to win the match in straight sets.

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Twitter calls out Belinda Bencic and the umpire for a bad call in Guadalajara

Belinda Bencic
Belinda Bencic

Tennis fans on social media were very upset by the poor umpiring standard and called out the umpire for the same. They even bashed Bencic for not showing any class and instead taking a point that wasn’t rightfully hers.

https://twitter.com/tsitsipain/status/1583019641055907841
https://twitter.com/amithedrama_/status/1583026348733657088
https://twitter.com/QueenGarciaa31/status/1583208385478291456

Stephens will now face Jessica Pegula in the quarterfinals after defeating Caroline Garcia in the Round of 16.

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