Caroline Wozniacki called out Dayana Yastremska for playing the gamesmanship card.
Yastremska's coach, Sascha Bajin, has a message for social media skeptics doubting his charge's leg injury: Zip it.
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In the aftermath of Wozniacki's 7-5, 7-5 Australian Open second-round win over Yastremska, she suggested the No. 23 seed played the injury card as a tactical tool in calling a medical time-out before serving at 4-5 in the second set.
"Yeah, obviously she tried to break my rhythm," Wozniacki told the media afterward. "And at 5-4 I don't think there is anything wrong. She was running just fine. So that's a trick that she's done before, and I knew that it was coming.
"But I was just trying to stay focused. I had match point. I had chances. I didn't take them. Some of them she played well; some of them I played too passively. In the end I just tried to keep focusing, just keep grinding, keep hanging in there. And I finally made it at 6-5 for me, and that was a nice relief."
Bajin struck back on Twitter saying the 19-year-old Yastremska, who was runner-up to world No. 1 Ashleigh Barty in last week's Adelaide final, was truly injured.
"Just to shut some people up and end this useless convo," Bajin posted. "Dayana was really struggling with her leg, but since y'all are doctors and coaches you know better than she herself or our whole team who's working with her."
Several skeptics responded to Bajin's tweet countering Yastremska has a history of questionably-timed medical timeouts.
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