{"id":535592,"date":"2026-03-14T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535592\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T09:16:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T09:16:12","slug":"aryna-sabalenka-speaks-out-on-tennis-var-problem-after-jack-draper-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/535592\/","title":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka speaks out on tennis\u2019 VAR problem after Jack Draper controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aryna Sabalenka<\/a> believes players must have to halt a point immediately to seek a video review after the controversy that surrounded Jack Draper<\/a>\u2019s Indian Wells<\/a> exit to Daniil Medvedev.<\/p>\n

Defending champion Draper succumbed to a 6-1 7-5 loss<\/a> against the Russian but it was a contentious late hindrance call<\/a> that got everyone talking, one which allowed Medvedev to get the all important break in the second set.<\/p>\n

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Medvedev had taken issue with Draper raising his arms at a disputed line call midway through the point, appealing to umpire Aurelie Torte after netting his backhand a few shots later. After a video review, Torte deemed Draper to have distracted his opponent and awarded a crucial point to Medvedev, taking him 0-30 up with the second set at 5-5.<\/p>\n

World No 1 Sabalenka didn\u2019t take have as much of a problem with the ruling but rather the procedure, insisting that players shouldn\u2019t be able to discover the outcome of the point before asking for a video review to intervene.<\/p>\n

\"Aryna<\/p>\n

Aryna Sabalenka during her Indian Wells semi-final win over Linda Noskova (IMAGN IMAGES via Reuters Connect)<\/p>\n

“What I think is really awkward is you can finish the point and then ask for that,” Sabalenka said, speaking after her Indian Wells semi-final win over Linda Noskova.<\/p>\n

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“Because if you really got bothered, then you should stop immediately and ask for the video review… if he would have won the point, he wouldn’t probably ask for the video review, right? I don’t really think that’s the way it should be.<\/p>\n

“If he got bothered, [he should] ask for the video review straightaway.”<\/p>\n

Video review technology has been available on all courts at the nine ATP Masters 1000 tournaments since February last year, allowing players to challenge umpiring decisions on foul shots and hindrances among other issues.<\/p>\n

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\"Jack<\/p>\n

Jack Draper appeals to the umpire after a contentious hindrance call (AP)<\/p>\n

Umpires can also call hindrance without a player seeking a review, as happened with Sabalenka for excessive grunting in a rally during her Australian Open semi-final win over Elina Svitolina in January.<\/p>\n

“With me, it was unnecessary for the referee to call that one,\u201d she added. \u201cAbout Daniil, theoretically he [Draper] made the move, but I don’t think it bothered Daniil that much.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sabalenka has been in formidable form this season, winning 15 of her first 16 matches, with her only defeat coming against Elena Rybakina in the Melbourne showpiece in January.<\/p>\n

She will now get a shot at revenge as she takes on the Kazakh in the Indian Wells final on Saturday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aryna Sabalenka believes players must have to halt a point immediately to seek a video review after the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":535593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[6005,49,48,16151,187919,11044,61818,82,593,209612],"class_list":["post-535592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-aryna-sabalenka","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-indian-wells","tag-jack-draper","tag-linda-noskova","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-video-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=535592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/535592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=535592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=535592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=535592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}