Tennis fans condemned Australian Open broadcaster Channel Seven for airing coaching notes belonging to Daria Gavrilova, not once, but twice during the emerging star's Sunday night match. 
Gavrilova shocked 10th seed Spaniard Carla Suarez Navarro by taking the opening set to love in the fourth-round match on Rod Laver Arena and looked set for an early triumph. She was aided by a secret "cheat sheet" of typed and handwritten tactical and motivational notes supplied by her coach Nicole Pratt that reminded her "this is exactly where you should be" and "you can and will outwork her".
She consulted the coaching notes at a set apiece. However, the notes did not remain a secret.
Channel Seven filmed the notes in Gavrilova's tennis bag, zooming in as they put them to air not once, but twice. Commentators then proceeded to dissect some of the coaching advice. While it may not have been a factor in Gavrilova's eventual defeat, Seven's breach of trust drew an angry response on social media, with many Twitter users saying it was an unnecessary betrayal of the 21-year-old newly stamped Australian, fondly nicknamed Dasha.
The notes were torn to shreds as a devastated Gavrilova left Rod Laver Arena after losing to Navarro 0-6, 6-3, 6-2, contributing to the other talking point of the loss - Gavrilova's emotional meltdown in the third set.
The 21-year-old chastised herself, lashed her courtside entourage, smashed her racquet - over and over - and kicked a ball in disgust in front of the sellout crowd.