At least Cirstea won the match 6-7, 6-2, 6-0

Cirstea is right. Cibulkova stopped play during the point and then it was proven that it was in, so Cibulkova should lose the point

incompetent umpire.

This umpire is horrendous. Not only could she not figure out the obvious in regards to who should get this point but on her watch hawk eye overruled 6 calls in one set. What a pathetic joke she is.

This wasnt the only incident on that match. Type on youtube: Cirstea 6 challenges in one set. That match was dirty. They were keep calling "out" every single shot and it were all in. And poor sportmanship from Cibulkova. She should have given the point.

The umpire was wrong ... twice: 1. Cibulkova stopped the point before the umpire wrongly called out (as Cristea tried to explain). So it is Cristea's point! 2. Even if Cibulkova had not stopped the point, the umpire wrongly called out waaaay after Cibulkova hit the ball, which then itself went out. So it is Cristea's point again! What a dense umpire!

Sorana is so cute !!

the problems with umpires/referee is that they never change their judgement. like they thought they would lose authority or be embarrassed if they correct themselves. i feel helpless when after a ruling and many players complain but never did any got a successful appeal. can't be that the umpire is always right is it, they are all human too.

good job, Sorana!!! and you're so beautiful!!!! and why Cibulkova didn't say that she called out (before judge did) and stopped playing!!! it is tennis, it's king sport, every player must be honest

this was a very good match--Cirstea won impressively after this incident

Her voice is cute dawn 😚

1:05 Sorana pissed off: definition of sexy.

Dominika isn't fair-play here. She could have said to the umpire that Sorana was right because even her (Domi) knew that Sorana was right.

Why hire umpires like this? It would be totally avoidable. I'm sure there are plenty of qualified people who understand tennis.

Nice clip. Cirstea has great eye. So does Alex Dolgopolov, though it hasn't really helped make him a champion. He is almost never wrong when he challenges.

Poor umpire in my opinion.

The issue is not that Cibulkova "stopped the point", but that she hit the ball before the umpire called it out. As her own shot landed out, she lost the point, as her shot was unaffected by the umpire's late call.

the officials and umpire at this tournament are very poor... 😤😠😠. she got 6/6 challenges in one set correctly, even though her shots were in, the umpire and officials kept saying they were out.

That umpire made things so much more difficult then they needed to be

Problems like these can be avoided, if hawk eye is used with every single stroke and so umpire can stop the point in real time by reviewing the hawk eye. They are already using hawk eye, may as well use it the entire time, mistake would be virtually be impossible to happen. One dedicated umpire can watch the hawk eye during the match. No argument, no need for 3 challenges per set. Players can then concentrate on playing and not bias umpiring.

Now imagine there is no hawk-eye. Now realise there was no hawk-eye in tennis for like 50 yrs before they introduced it. Now realise how DIRTY AND CORRUPTED tennis was in last 50 yrs, if even with hawk eye they are trying to fix. I can believe in like 2, lets say 3 mistakes. But not 6 (SIX), and not that big ones.

I hope that Cirstea won this match. She definitely deserved it!

Cibulkova is a good competitor but very poor sportsmanship here no question..any little kids know to give up the point when this sequence of events happened.

NO,she is NOT! ''Why's everyone calling Sarana a gypsy??'' Because the internet is the only place where you can say nasty things about somebody without getting punched in the face!

Luckily Sorana won in the end.... that's most important.

it suppposed Cristea point, because Domi already wave her hand too for challenge. Disgusting petite Domi

This match was a hot mess and Cibulkova totally classless about the situation. Glad Cirstea won in the end.

Thank you for posting this. This is the reason why I hope CibulKUNTova gets her arse handed to her by Stosur 2014 French Open!!

i hope they fired this umpire after this match! USELESS!

cirstea is right.

you are looking at 2013 stanford. this was 2012 stanford.

Look what Cibulkov did in this match, and what she did for Hsieh in 2018 Wimbledon. She is a cheater, lack of sportsmanship, very unprofessional.

She was right and she’s a cutie too.

terrible umpiring

Excelent! Is time for judgers to take lessons from players! Bravo Sorana!

not at all tennis related but this is the very video i was watching when my old ssd gave up and failed

it should be cirstea's point!!

in this match there were 6 bad calls against Cirstea overruled by hawkeye and 3 times Cirstea would have won the points if the bad calls had not been made; once, Cibulkova was already beaten, the other 2 times, including here, Cibulkova hit the ball before the out calls- each time Cirstea should have been awarded the points without having to argue her case

Cirstea was right. How lame for Cibulkova

Cirstea still won that match. :P

umpires seem deathly afraid of admitting they made a mistake

thumbs up if you weren't paying much attention to the incident ;D

This umpire is TERRIBLE! I have seen her in other matches and there is never a smooth outcome.

first time ever i see a supervisor correct an umpire. 99.9% of the time they dont give a flying fuck about players and their arguments. Probably cause Cirstea is so attractive that he had to do something.

Cirstea is a cutie

The hawk eye rules are clear and there is no predicament.. the only problem lies that the umpire has to judge the timing of the call and the players reaction to see which one came first.. its the tricky part and error prone.. the umpire made an error here because the outcall had no effect on cibulkova shot as she had already gone through the shot and the call came later

That was awesome, Sorana

Sorana is hot.

Funny to see how what was seemingly an innocuous match, sullied behind-the-scene or not, to transpire into a form of entertainment that made everyone in unison, felt genuine indignation for the one victimized. Helps that she's a beauty.

Cicak would never agree with a player and revert her decision :)

Cibulkova had a chance to show class. Instead, she cheated. Now, she'll be known as a cheater rather than someone who has class.

This same thing happened in Nadal x Berdych in London 2010, Nadal did the same thing as Cibulkova and the umpire also called out after Nadal raised his arm, Berdych challenged and won, and the umpire gave the point the point to Berdych, and everyone said the umpire was wrong, that the point should have been replayed, etc...so people, make up your minds: Nadal getting angry With Umpire vs Berdych london 2010 HD

Yeah 6-7 6-2 6-0.

I think, that was the good decesion.

i think that umpire was useless anyway...dont think she did another match after

The last person to be that cheesed-off was Paul Rust delivering some new no-nos

Some of the comments are disgusting. Just because Sorana is Romanian doesn't mean she is a gypsy. Its ridiculous how Romanians are being stereotyped in such a manner. Furthermore even if someone was a gypsy, why all the hate and prejudice, all human beings are equal and deserve respect.

oh did Cibulkova say out just before the umpire? I thought it was the linesperson who said out?

I'm glad the umpire made that final decision!

cibulkova... c'mon ! be honest =O !

I didn't knew Whoopi Goldberg was a chair umpire

Which pixel is Cirstea?

She got 6 challenges right in the first set.

Right decision at the end, Cirstea said the truth, didn't like Cibulkova behaviour, she was not honest

Poor sorana

good at least cibulkova wasnt a maria martinez sanchez about it that little cheater

this may be the first time in tennis history the supervisor changed the umpire's ruling.

For a point like this, if you the player stop play before a lines person or chair umpire call it, you basically forfeit the right to a replay, especially when you get it completely wrong.

The umpire overruled the line judge, needlessly and incorrectly. She sat silently for 5 other challenges against Cirstea that set. Cirstea made her point clearly and succinctly, and was right - and yet the umpire wouldn't agree until forced to. Ego and arrogance got in the way. A sports official's #1 goal needs to be to get the call right without bias, favour, or personal interest. In that simple, clear job, this official is horrible.

i think cibulkova wasn`t fairplay at all ...

Came here for arguments about Trump and Clinton, wasn't disappointed.

Blind whoopi Goldberg

I would’ve sued everyone and everything had this been me. They were clearly cheating her on almost every ball that landed on the baseline.

Bravo Sorana.

Sorana is riight !! :3

Sorana amor mio, no hagas corajes, recuerda que el que se enoja pierde ....🌹

This isn't 'Nam, there are rules.

that umpire needs to get fired. Who does she think she is? Marianna Alves aka Us open 2004 (introduction of the hawkeye)?

Did Cirstea win the match ?

imagine the umpire facing serena

why cibulkova didnt tell the truth to the umpire ??? No fair play =O ?

The thing is, if the umpire called out, and didn't let Cibulkova challenge (like she would have if the umpire hadn't stopped the point),the point actually stopped because of the umpire...it makes no difference if Cibulkova stopped earlier, it was the umpire's mistake, so replay the point. The umpire took the responsability for the call, she didn't even let Cibulkova challenge!

+Laur Duffy For your information, my mother tongue is french, I speak Spanish, and English and have notions of german. I am also Canadian, not american. Can you say the same?Don't you dare lecture anybody you don't know on foreign languages.

1:31 actually the ball seems to be way out 🧐🤔

Cirstea always seems to get the rough end of the arguments.

Who ended up winning?

you said before you said out

Cibulkova cheating Dwarf :))

Sorana was right,spot on!

This was by far, the most corrupt tennis match I've ever seen. If I was her I would have petitioned to never have that crew officiate my matches ever again.

1. Umpire is stupid and doesn't know the damn rules. 2. Cibulkova's behavior is completely unsportsmanlike, not once but twice. First because she's calling out herself and second because she won't admit she did it. Very glad she lost that match.

Cirstea is absolutely correct!! WHY so many mistakes with the line calling? Really REALLY BAD day for these lines people. Very distracting to a player when you get call after call wrong.

Why don't just apply the hawk-eye to every shot? So ridiculous...

players are idiots in these kind of situations.. you should just go to the umpire and say ''yes i called it out before you did, give her the point''

domi stoped ... and then linesman call the ball out ..

Yay Sorana =)

That umpire was really poor

Sorana

1:05 that's one frustrated but beautiful woman in Cirstea.

cibulkova should have say something, since she challenged it out, after she hit it.