Wild Wozniacki in Hawk-Eye blast as Dane loses the plot

RIDICULOUS. Absurd. Crazy. These were all words a raging Caroline Wozniacki used to describe Hawk-Eye during her third-round capitulation. But they could so easily apply to the Dane’s claims that the technology had conspired against her in favour of her Chinese opponent Shuai Zhang, who won 6-4, 6-2. In letting slip a 4-0 lead and losing 12 of the next 14 games the Dane became the latest high-profile seed to exit. Having seen several challenges go against her, Wozniacki strode across No 2 Court and asked the umpire: ‘How am I supposed to play when every single time the ball is overruled? It is crazy.’ She was not done, continuing: ‘How are we playing with Hawk-Eye that is this bad? This is not fair. It’s so ridiculous. This is absurd. ‘That one was far out, this one was maybe close, but it’s out. It’s crazy... obviously, it’s wrongly put.’ An hour later, Wozniacki (right) belatedly showed some reason, saying: ‘Maybe it was right. I saw it differently.’ There was a scare for Karolina Pliskova too, but the No 3 seed survived the crafty drop shots and spin of Taiwanese Hsieh Su-Wei to prevail 6-3, 2-6, 6-4. The Czech has backed up her win at Eastbourne and after dropping her first set in eight matches she smiled: ‘I lost a set, so I’m very disappointed.’ She is joined round four by No7 seed Simona Halep, who beat Victoria Azarenka 6-3, 6-1 and called the win her ‘best match this year’. Azarenka said she had ‘no excuses’ but hit out at the umpire over a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct for throwing her racquet on the floor, saying: ‘It was pathetic, to be honest. It’s like you have to be with no single emotion on the court, and that’s just not tennis.’