Azarenka...cheater?

[BluudyEEfingaz]

It's the equivalent of disconnecting purposely to restart the stamina of your TS4 player. The number one seed took a 10 minute time-out for two alleged injuries and after the match explained, (to a nearly silent Aussie crowd after her victory) that she was out of breath and "choked" and had to regroup, never mentioning an injury. I think she should be fined. Sloane should have kept her adrenaline going but the inexperienced player sat the entire time waiting on her opponent to return. In the past the rules have been no player could take an injury time-out during their opponent's serve, plus no two injury could be treated consecutively, which meant, one time-out issued separately from the following injury. Azarenka had chances to ask for the time-out but chose to take it when she failed to convert on 5 match points.

[Corbon]

Yeah she was cheating and she even openly admitted it

If I were Stephens I would've protested but she's still a greenhorn.

[emate007]

I'm not sure what to think about this... Blatant abuse of the rules, but at least she admitted it?

It really seemed like she thought it was ok to call the 10 min mental timeout based on her post match interview, I'm more inclined to think her coach/coaches were at fault.

Hopefully this doesn't proliferate, but I don't especially care either way.

[Cro Morgan]

Yeah she was cheating and she even openly admitted it

Don't think it can be considered cheating if she admitted it. My guess: she's not that bright.

[Corbon]

If you rob a bank and openly admit it during trial, you still won't get away with it!

[emate007]

In this case, yes you would.

[Cro Morgan]

If you rob a bank and openly admit it during trial, you still won't get away with it!

True, but Azarenka would rob a bank thinking it's okay to rob a bank.

[Corbon]

lol Serena will be back at No. 1 next week.

[ICEMAN_9588]

I didn't see the match, but I've readt about another "cheating" episode from Vika, against Sara Errani in Doha QF.
At some point of the match (I think in the second set), a ball hit by Vika is called out, but after the challenge (ball was in) the chair umpire gave the point to Azarenka.

Then Errani says to the umpire that she did hit the ball, so the point should have been re-played. Chair umpire then admitted she didn't remember if Sara hit the ball and asked Vika to help her out but she wanted to have the point won.

I repeat, I didn't see the match, so I cannot express an opinion about that.

Ok I found the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYeOBmDm65E
Minute 17.15

[Cro Morgan]

In this case, Azarenka was right.

[Corbon]

Yeah no dispute on that, Errani hit the ball before the call came and the ball missed.