Iga Swiatek calls for player privacy at Australian Open after Coco Gauff smashes racket: ‘Are we animals in the zoo?’

Source: New York Post

World number two Iga Swiatek joined a growing chorus of players demanding more privacy off the courts at the Australian Open after cameras captured Coco Gauff in a post-match meltdown that the American said should have been a personal moment. The incident occurred after Gauff’s 59-minute quarter-final defeat by Elina Svitolina, when the American retreated behind a wall near the match call area deep in the bowels of the stadium to repeatedly smash her racket on the ground. Unbeknownst to the third seed, cameras recorded her every move and the video was broadcast to viewers around the world, with Gauff saying she was unhappy that there was no privacy anywhere except the locker room.