CoCo Vandeweghe rips Maria Sharapova for unsportsmanlike tactics

Published Jul. 7, 2015 3:52 p.m. ET

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Jimmy Traina

First Carmelo Anthony, now Maria Sharapvoa.

Tennis pro CoCo Vandeweghe, who made headlines last week after calling the Knicks forward "soft," took issue with Sharapova for questionable behavior during their Wimbledon quarterfinal match on Tuesday.

Vandeweghe, who lost in three sets, 6-3, 6-7 (3), 6-2, felt that Sharapova was moving around too much while she was trying to serve.

Here's what Vandeweghe had to say about the incident post-match to Agence France-Presse via the New York Post:

"What I felt from her moving around in between my serving motion was not, I don't think, sportsmanlike. I try to play as fair as I can. ... When I felt like it wasn't being reciprocated, that's when I spoke with the umpire for her to deal with.

"She [the umpire] said she didn't believe she was doing it during the motion. I strongly disagreed. Towards the later end of the second set, I said if she has a problem speaking to Maria, if she's too scared to do it, I had no problem speaking to her."

Sharapova, though, wouldn't partake in the back-and-forth.

"It is what it is. What she said, I'm not going to argue against her words," Sharapova had said.

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