By Marnie Vinall, ABC

Photo: AAP / Photosport

American tennis star Coco Gauff has suggested players do not have enough privacy at the Australian Open after vision of her smashing a racquet was broadcast on TV.

Gauff cut a frustrated figure throughout her 6-1, 6-2 quarterfinal loss to Ukraine's Elina Svitolina, and then was shown smashing her racquet inside one of the tunnels at Melbourne Park.

"I tried to go somewhere where there was no cameras," she told reporters when asked about the racquet smash.

"I kind of have a thing with the broadcast.

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