{"id":679340,"date":"2026-06-02T06:44:47","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679340\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T06:44:47","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T06:44:47","slug":"jim-courier-blasts-roland-garros-over-ruud-v-fonseca-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/679340\/","title":{"rendered":"Jim Courier blasts Roland Garros over Ruud v Fonseca controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jim Courier has taken a swipe at Roland Garros<\/a> after fresh controversy surrounding technology in the Casper Ruud<\/a> vs Joao Fonseca<\/a> match. <\/p>\n

The French Open<\/a> is the only major tournament on the professional circuit to not embrace ball-tracking technology.<\/p>\n

And the fourth round match saw Brazilian teen sensation Fonseca enjoy a reprieve during the crunch point in the second set.<\/p>\n

Ruud was leading 8-7 in the tiebreaker and brought up set point, with Fonseca\u2019s forehand seemingly drifting long, prompting a fan to shout \u201cout\u201d.<\/p>\n

And Hawk-Eye supported that view, displaying the ball had indeed gone long, but the chair umpire overruled Hawk-Eye, instead pointing to a spot on the clay and stating that it had caught the back line. <\/p>\n

Ruud was therefore denied the second set, and would go on to lose it and the match 5-7, 6-7(10), 7-5, 2-6, with Fonseca in the quarter-finals and a golden chance to break through in the grand slams thanks to the absence of Jannik Sinner, Novak Djokovic and Carlos Alcaraz.<\/p>\n

Commentator Jim Courier was upset at the incident, stating that \u201cin any other tournament these guys played in all year long, that ball is out and the set is over\u201d.<\/p>\n

\"CasperCasper Ruud reacts against Joao Fonseca (Getty)<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI\u2019m not saying electronic line calling is perfect, but it makes far fewer mistakes than humans. Matches should be decided by the players, not by people, not in 2026.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others disagreed, though, with Roland Garros\u2019 clay able to afford umpires a chance intervene, with Australian four-time grand slam doubles champion and former Australian Open tournament director Paul McNamee backing up the French slam.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cI gave Jim his first gig as a commentator at the Australian Open. He\u2019s top shelf, but in this case I disagree with him. Technology is not perfect either, so may the authenticity of ball marks prevail\u2026on clay, at Roland Garros, tennis is gladiatorial uniquely with human arbiters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":679341,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-679340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=679340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/679340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/679341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=679340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=679340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=679340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}