The often outspoken Navratilova called the incident pathetic and deemed the chair umpire not worthy of working matches on clay.
Toth, playing in front of her home crowd was reportedly grinning while Shuai, 34, argued the ruling, and celebrated with her arms in the air with the crowd following Shuai’s retirement.The Chinese native Shuai has reportedly been dealing with mental health issues recentlyToth’s tournament run didn’t last long as she was blown out by Ukrainian, Kateryna Baindl, in straight sets on Thursday, losing 6-3, 6-1 in the Round of 16.
Kiara Toth, 20, became tennis’ villain after she erased the mark left by then world No. 45 Zhang Shuai’s cross-court forehand that appeared to land on the line but was called out by the chair umpire.The umpire seemed to side with Toth as Shuai questioned her opponent’s motives for erasing the mark on the court, and never got out of her chair to examine where the ball she ruled out had landed.
“I am extremely sorry for what happened, I respect Zhang Shuai as a player and as a person. It was never my intention to disrespect, hurt or upset anybody, let alone Zhang Shuai.
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