Decidedly, top athletes are in a fighting mood this week. After Salimatou Kourouma et Kamite Elisabeth Dabouthe basketball players of the national team of Mali, the tennis players Corentin Moutet et Adrian Andreev came to blows.
This Thursday took place the Challenger of Orleans, in France. In the second round of the tournament, Corentin Moutet (64th in the world), seeded number 1, faced Adrian Andreev (247th in the world) who had just beaten him in Genoa. At the end of a duel under high tension, it was once once more the Bulgarian who won in three sets (2-6, 7-6, 7-6). There followed a stormy handshake between the two players, who then got violently confused. The referee had no choice but to get down from his chair to separate the two men.
At the end of the game, the Frenchman hastened to post a lunar message on Instagram. “I don’t want to apologize for what happened late in the game.”started Corentin Moutet surprisingly, before explaining himself, “When a player allows you to say ‘Fuck you’ twice while looking me in the eye, I can’t help but make him understand in my own way that these are not things that are done. You applauded this player at the end of the match. Maybe for you these are acceptable things, for me they are not. In any case, he threatened me and asked me to wait for him at the exit of the court. Thing that I obviously I struggled to find him for ten minutes He was hidden on the other side behind 6 security people“.
Moutet then addressed his opponent of the day. “I heard your threats, so when you get out of the room where they hid you, I’ll be very happy to see you carry out your threats. I’m waiting for you impatiently, we can talk calmly“, he wrote ironically.
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