Coco Gauff had seen enough.<br /><br />During the No. 6-ranked American’s first-round 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 win against Laura Siegemund at the U.S. Open Sunday evening, Gauff blasted the chair umpire for not enforcing time violation rules for her opponent.<br /><br />As Gauff held a commanding 3-0 lead in the deciding third set, she grew frustrated when Siegemund put her arms up to signal she wasn’t ready for Gauff’s serve and the umpire honored her request.<br /><br />“She’s never ready when I’m serving, She went over to talk like four times, and you only gave her a time violation once, How is this fair?” Gauff said incredulously.<br /><br />“No, you’re calling the score after the point is over, it’s not like we’re playing long points. You’re calling the score like six seconds after the point is over!”<br /><br />“She’s 100 percent right,” ESPN commentator Patrick McEnroe chimed in.<br /><br />“You have missed her like four times. She’s never ready! It’s not like we’re having, like 30-ball rallies. It’s two balls…I’m going at a normal speed! Ask any ref here, I go at a medium-pace speed,” Gauff continued.<br /><br />“She can’t [go back] every single point. And everybody in this crowd knows I’ve been quiet this whole match…That first set was like every point. I didn’t say anything, but now it’s ridiculous. I don’t care what she’s putting on her serves, on my serves she has to be ready.”<br /><br />The crowd roared in approval as Gauff returned to her post behind the baseline.<br /><br />Siegemund, the No. 123-ranked player from Germany, had consistently been using up all of her time when she served and even earned a time violation warning during the third set.<br /><br />Gauff dropped the first set 3-6 but bounced back to take the second set 6-2, and took command of the third set when she earned a couple of early breaks.<br /><br />The American enters this tournament as one of the country’s best hopes for a Grand Slam, having won hardcourt tournaments in both Washington D.C. and Cincinnati this summer in the lead-up to the U.S. Open.
