Alize Cornet slams 'shameful' umpiring at French Open

Alize Cornet has echoed Victoria Azarenka's calls for the introduction of a video replay to be deployed by chair umpires, after another dispute at the French Open.

French 29th seed Cornet lost her fourth-round encounter to 19th seed Elina Svitolina 6-2 7-6 (11-9), not before contesting chair umpire Alison Hughes' decision to side with Svitolina at a key moment in the 11th game of the second set.

Svitolina halted the rally for what she believed to be a missed out call on a Cornet shot with the Frenchwoman down break point, and Hughes agreed - however, Cornet spotted the mark that she believed to have shown her ball landed in.

After Azarenka was inconvenienced by a late, incorrect call at a key moment against Serena Williams on Saturday, the Belarusian called for video footage to be used by umpires - and Cornet agreed it was a viable option to avoid mistakes.

"Sometimes using a camera, you're using video replay technology... maybe the video would have shown me that I was wrong, but I saw it," Cornet said.

"It was right there. And I think sometimes it would really be worth using the video."

Cornet slammed the decision to award the point to Svitolina shameful and scandalous.

"I don't want to go into this. I don't know how much judges can be influenced.

"Generally, I never watch after and I did this time. It's a shame, it's shameful.

"I don't know how she could look straight in my eyes and tell me the ball was out."

Despite the controversy and the exit from her home major, Cornet said she had a positive week - and called on the WTA Tour to introduce a new tournament in France.

"I had a really good time on the court, sharing these good emotions, good vibes with the crowd," Cornet reflected.

"Even when I was down 5-0 in the first set, they were still behind me, trying to push me to play better. And that's how I finally got into the match in the second set.

"I think I was really ready to take all this emotion from the crowd this year, and that's why I'm even more sad to leave the tournament because I was enjoying every moment on the court, and it's always tough to finish this kind of good moment.

"But I'm really looking forward to playing next year now. We have too few tournaments in France for women, and I regret it a lot because I actually love playing in Paris and [in front of] all of our friends. But now we only have Paris and Strasbourg left.

"Maybe if I can send a little message to the tournament director who wants to create a tournament in France, it would be really amazing for the French players."