{"id":437971,"date":"2026-01-26T05:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437971\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T05:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T05:49:09","slug":"carlos-alcaraz-whoop-asked-to-remove-device-reaction-latest-news-video-highlights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/437971\/","title":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz whoop, asked to remove device, reaction, latest news, video, highlights"},"content":{"rendered":"

Carlos Alcaraz will face off with an entire nation when he takes on Alex de Minaur in a quarter-final showdown on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

But in his fourth round victory against Tommy Paul on Sunday, the world No.1 faced off with the chair umpire and the game\u2019s governing body.<\/p>\n

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During the warm-up on Rod Laver Arena, chair umpire Marija Cicak noticed a fitness-tracking Whoop watch, which is banned from the tournament, on Alcaraz\u2019s wrist and asked the Spaniard to remove the device.<\/p>\n

Television cameras captured the exchange and Alcaraz was happy to oblige.<\/p>\n

But not everyone else has been so okay with the decision.<\/p>\n

Whoop\u2019s founder Will Ahmed took to social media hit back at the turn of events and the technology being black-listed.<\/p>\n

\u201cRidiculous. Whoop is approved by the International Tennis Federation for in-match wear and poses no safety risk,\u201d Ahmed posted on X (formerly known as Twitter).<\/p>\n

\u201cLet the athletes measure their bodies. Data is not steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n

Australian greats Todd Woodbridge and Lleyton Hewitt were also angered by the decision.<\/p>\n

Woodbridge called for greater consistency in the rules as he explained it is different across the men\u2019s and women\u2019s games.<\/p>\n

While Hewitt took aim at the ITF with Australia\u2019s Davis Cup captain citing that event as an example of why the organisation should be more widely questioned.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe saw yesterday that Carlos Alcaraz had the Whoop underneath his sweatband and, of course, it says the WTA have a deal where the women can wear it at their times, the ITF say you can\u2019t wear it,\u201d Woodbridge said on Channel Nine.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, a Whoop is to collect data about how you\u2019re feeling and they worry about perhaps you could use it for coaching.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve got coaching; why can\u2019t you have your own data?<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t understand those rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo this provides blood readings, pulse rates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis [tracks] your rest, your heart rate, how your body is, sleeping patterns, how much working recovery, all of that type of stuff.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo why isn\u2019t a player allowed to have their own data and know how they\u2019re feeling? It doesn\u2019t make sense.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes our rules in tennis, one rule is over here and then the other one says \u2018no\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan we get our rules the same, please?\u201d<\/p>\n

Hewitt replied: \u201cDo we really need the ITF? They\u2019ve had a horror with Davis Cup and now with this, making new rules … When you can use it on the WTA Tour, it doesn\u2019t make any sense whatsoever.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is just a player wellness thing that they can control,\u201d Woodbridge added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Carlos Alcaraz will face off with an entire nation when he takes on Alex de Minaur in a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437972,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[34341,63,689,219494,6571,228222,962,145953,228218,178129,43,73908,136013,228223,228221,37660,228220,673,44,677,228217,228216,670,228219,3741,48017,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-437971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-alexander-volkanovski","tag-australia","tag-australia-and-new-zealand","tag-australian-greats","tag-australian-open","tag-blood-readings","tag-carlos-alcaraz","tag-chair-umpire","tag-device-pre-match","tag-featherweight-champion","tag-headlines","tag-heart-rate","tag-home-city","tag-in-match-wear","tag-international-transport-workers-federation","tag-lleyton-hewitt","tag-marija-cicak","tag-new-south-wales","tag-news","tag-oceania","tag-player-wellness-thing","tag-safety-risk","tag-sydney","tag-television-cameras","tag-todd-woodbridge","tag-tommy-paul","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437971","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=437971"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437971\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}