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‘What are we doing here?’ Cameron Norrie upset with umpire’s intervention

Cameron Norrie has expressed his frustration at being penalised for a hindrance during his gritty five-set win against Benoît Paire on Monday, describing the umpire’s intervention as “unacceptable”. After an intense battle with crowd, opponent and himself, he recovered from two sets to one down to reach the second round with a 7-5, 4-6, 3-6, 6-1, 6-4 win on Court Suzanne Lenglen.

At 1-1, 30-30 in the second set on Norrie’s serve, the 27-year-old unloaded on an inside-out forehand that elicited an error from Paire. But the umpire, Nico Helwerth, called a hindrance on Norrie because of a noise he made after striking his final forehand, rewarding the point to his French opponent.

Helwerth told Norrie he thought the Briton had shouted out “yeah” during the point, which Norrie contended was merely a grunt. On the next point, Paire crushed a backhand winner to break serve for the first time.

“For him to get involved in that was, for me, doesn’t make any sense,” Norrie said. “What are we doing here? I’m here playing tennis, competing as hard as I can, and to do that, a pretty big point. Maybe if I spoke to him now he thinks he’s wrong, but I’m fighting my ass off and one call of that could influence the match.

“I got away with it today and I was able to come through in five sets. But ultimately it was a big call in the end and it changed the momentum of the match.”

Norrie, who also called the umpire’s intervention absurd, expressed frustration about the differing consequences for umpires and players when they make mistakes. He also brought up a questionable call during Dan Evans’s first-round loss on Sunday. Evans was called for a foot fault for his back foot crossing the centre line, which he argued against.

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