{"id":431275,"date":"2026-01-23T02:36:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:36:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431275\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T02:36:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T02:36:15","slug":"naomi-osaka-vs-sorana-cirstea-handshake-video-reaction-john-millman-exclusive-opinion-stan-sports-grand-slam-daily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/431275\/","title":{"rendered":"Naomi Osaka vs Sorana Cirstea handshake video, reaction, John Millman exclusive opinion, Stan Sport’s Grand Slam Daily"},"content":{"rendered":"

MELBOURNE: The chair umpire for the Naomi Osaka<\/a> vs Sorana Cirstea clash must take some responsibility for its frosty ending<\/a>, according to ex-Australian professional John Millman.<\/p>\n

Osaka, a two time Australian Open<\/a> champion, has been the central figure of the first week of the tournament.<\/p>\n

The 28-year-old mother is starting to get back to some of her best tennis but fashion<\/a> and friction have instead been the talking points.<\/p>\n

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\"Sorana<\/p>\n

Sorana Cirstea of Romania argues with Naomi Osaka of Japan at the net.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

The tense exchange between Osaka and Cirstea at the net was great theatre, as was the former’s on-court interview with Chanda Rubin that followed.<\/p>\n

Cirstea took issue with Osaka yelling ‘C’mon’ in between first and second serves.<\/p>\n

“I understand Sorana Cirstea’s point of view. However, I feel like it could have been handled just a little bit differently,” Millman said on Stan Sport’s Grand Slam Daily.<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Chris<\/p>\n

Chris Stubbs and John Millman on Stan Sport’s Grand Slam Daily.\u00a0Sam Worthington<\/p>\n

“I feel like the umpire (Kelly Rask) could have addressed it during the match, so we didn’t get those scenes at the net when they shook hands. I haven’t really had that happen before, especially verbally, the ‘c’mons’.<\/p>\n

“Naomi Osaka, she’s not a malicious person. I think that she’s known to be a very good sportswoman.<\/p>\n

“I think there’s not really a big foul here. I think in the heat of the moment it was frustrating for Cirstea, but should have been handled a little bit differently.”<\/p>\n

\"Umpire<\/p>\n

Umpire Kelly Rask looks on.\u00a0Getty<\/p>\n

Osaka won 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 at Margaret Court Arena on Thursday night to advance to a third round date with Aussie qualifier Maddison Inglis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Inglis will have little to lose as the rank outsider and Millman said Osaka, the 16th seed from Japan, had to be wary.<\/p>\n

“I just hope that Naomi Osaka, she can move on from it,” Millman said.<\/p>\n

“I know the media doesn’t like to, but she needs to move on from it and get ready for her next fight. There’s always gonna be some to-ing and froing and, and things get said in the heat of the battle.<\/p>\n

“I remember an Indian Wells with Jack Sock, who I actually deeply respect, we got into it a little bit at the handshake, but at the end of the day you move on pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

“You calm down, you reflect, and you go, OK, I might have been in the wrong, he might have been a little bit in the wrong, and you shake hands and that’s it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MELBOURNE: The chair umpire for the Naomi Osaka vs Sorana Cirstea clash must take some responsibility for its…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-431275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}