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NEW YORK — Another year. Another incident involving Jelena Ostapenko.
Ostapenko went off during her third-round doubles match against Maya Joint and Hao-Ching Chan at the US Open, yelling at the chair umpire and imploring them to discipline their opponents’ coach.
The drama started when Ostapenko’s partner, Su-wei Hsieh, went over to the umpire during a changeover, prompting Ostapenko to point towards Chan’s coach, accusing them of trash-talking and shouting their mistakes in Chinese.
Ostapenko said that Hsieh, who is from Taiwan, translated the exchange for her.
“They do this because they know they cannot beat us,” Ostapenko told the umpire, adding that the incident was disrespectful, even wanting a Chinese translator on site.
Ostapenko and Hsieh went on to win 6-4, 6-4, and Chan, who teamed with Joint to beat Venus and Serena Williams in the first round, did not shake Hsieh’s hand at the end of the match.
Ostapenko and Hsieh, the No. 4 seeds, will next take on Elise Mertens and Diana Shnaider in the quarterfinals.
Of course, this isn’t the first time that Ostapenko, the 2017 French Open champion, has gotten into an altercation with an opponent.
During last year’s tournament, in a second-round match at the US Open against Taylor Townsend, Ostapenko approached the net for a customary post-match handshake, after which a verbal confrontation ensued.
Ostapenko accused Townsend of having “no class, no education,” even waving her finger at Townsend, who is African-American and denied being racist toward her opponent. She later apologized to Townsend for her behavior.