Former World No.1 Victoria Azarenka has furiously claimed that "useless" umpires should be replaced by technology during a furious outburst after crashing out of the French Open in the first round.
Azarenka lost 2-6, 6-3, 6-4 to world no.42 Bianca Andreescu on Tuesday, with her outrage sparked during the defeat as she disputed a line call. The French Open is the only Grand Slam of the four tennis showpiece events which does not use HawkEye technology to resolve disputed line calls, with the technology having been a welcome addition since its introduction at Wimbledon in 2007.
During the first set of her defeat, Azarenka disputed the call made by the umpire, who stepped down from the chair to judge whether a ball had landed in or not based on marks on the clay.
