Tearful Coco Gauff argues with umpire, ousted at Paris Olympics - ESPN

PARIS — The scene felt all too familiar to Coco Gauff. An officiating decision she was sure was wrong. A chair umpire who wouldn't listen. Tears streaming down her cheeks. And, most disappointing of all, a loss, this time at the Paris Olympics.

Even the site was the same: Court Philippe Chatrier was where the reigning US Open champion was eliminated in the third round at the Summer Games by Donna Vekic of Croatia 7-6 (7), 6-2 on Tuesday.

That's also the main stadium used annually for the French Open, where Gauff found herself in a nearly identical dispute over a call while losing to eventual champion Iga Swiatek in a semifinal last month.

«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 said afterward, renewing a call for video review to be used in tennis, as it is in many other professional sports.

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

Gauff, a 20-year-old American who was seeded No. 2 at the Olympics in singles, already was trailing by a lot when the episode happened two games from the end of the match.

She hit a serve, and Vekic's return landed near the baseline. A line judge initially called Vekic's shot out; Gauff did not keep the ball in play. Chair umpire Jaume Campistol thought Vekic's shot landed in and awarded her the point, giving her a service break and a 4-2 lead.

Gauff walked over to talk to the official, and play was delayed for several minutes.

«I never argue these calls. But he called it out before I hit the ball,» Gauff said to Campistol. «It's not even a perception; it's the