Nice headline on this one....
Australian Open: CoCo Vandeweghe goes bananas in on-court tantrum over code violations
If you're a fan of on-court tennis tantrums, you'll go bananas for this doozy from Coco Vandeweghe.
The American 10th seed split from the Australian Open thanks to a shock first-round loss to world number 51 Timea Babos, going down 7-6 (7-4), 6-2.
Having lost the first set, Vandeweghe endured a meltdown, complaining to chair umpire Fergus Murphy that there were no bananas on court, causing a lengthy delay until fruit was brought to her.
"I have needs and it's not my fault that this court is ill-prepared."
Vandeweghe eventually got her bananas after a 60-second delay, before copping a time violation.
But the fruity snacks didn't do the trick. Down 5-1 in the second set, Vandeweghe bounced her racquet after losing a point, before hurling some potassium-tinged invective across the court in Babos' direction.
Social media's many lip readers claimed the American had mouthed the words "f*** off you f***ing bitch".
Whether it was for the verbal vitriol, or the racquet bounce, the umpire reprimanded Vandeweghe with a code violation, prompting another on-court chat.
Vandeweghe claimed in her post-match press conference that Babos had been very "in your face with her c'mons", but the Hungarian insisted it wasn't personal.
"If she would have looked at my matches I'm always like this," Babos said.
"It's never against my opponent, it was never to her face, it was to my box or when it was an incredible point it was to the crowd.
"It was not against her, it's against my personality. I'm crazy on court but not in a negative way, I'm just like this [animated]."
Vandeweghe said she had been suffering flu and had requested to delay the first round match, but was ignored.
Her sorry showing completed a terrible 1-9 sweep against American women on day one, with Nicole Gibbs the only US winner on Monday.
Vandeweghe joined Venus Williams and Sloane Stephens among a host of high-profile American exits.
It's not the first time Vandeweghe has made headlines for her on-court antics. At Wimbledon last year, Vandeweghe got into a heated argument with the chair umpire in a straight-sets loss to Magdalena Rybarikova.
The umpire had overruled the line judge's call of out, prompting Vandeweghe to exclaim "that's baloney, have you ever played tennis?"
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-01-1...antrum/9332228
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