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Frustrated Muguruza Lets Her Coach Hear it Again


Frustrated with a poor performance against Christina McHale midway through the second set of her second-round loss at the BNP Paribas Open on Saturday, No. 4 seed Garbine Muguruza let her frustration get the best of her during a coaching timeout with Sam Sumyk.

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A frazzled Muguruza tells Sumyk “I don’t even want to play,” as he urges her to try to close the gap against the American. When Sumyk urges her to fight, an angry Muguruza says, “You think I’m going to fight, 3-0 in the second set?”

Muguruza did indeed give it her best but McHale had too much game on this day. The American finished off her 7-5, 6-1 victory to move into the third round where she’ll face either Sam Stosur or Yanina Wickmayer.

After the match, Muguruza downplayed her exchange with Sumyk, saying “Obviously you're frustrated when you're trying and you don't find really, you know, what you want to do and you see yourself 3-0 in the second set. Obviously it was frustration.”

It’s the second consecutive event that has seen Muguruza have an impassioned on-court coaching moment with Sumyk. A few weeks back in Doha during a loss to Andrea Petkovic she snapped at her coach, saying “Tell me something I don’t know.” Sumyk quickly replied “It seems that you know everything.”

She was asked everything was okay between her and Sumyk and replied: “I don't think there is a problem. He knows I have character. I think it's a good sign when you express what you feel. It means that you care, that you're, you know, sad. … So that's nothing bad.”

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