At the Orleans Challenger, Corentin Moutet and Adrian Andreev came to blows late in the game near the net. The match between the two was hotly contested, with the Bulgarian managing to win with the final score of 2-6, 7-6, 7-6.
A very bad episode that returns to being a protagonist on the world tennis scene. In an interview with the team to talk about what happened was French coach Laurent Raymond, who explained some interesting details about the story.
Moutet’s coach explained: “There was nothing unusual from Corentin before the match. The only difference is that they met a few days ago at the Genoa Challenger, with a defeat caught by Moutet for 3-6, 7-6, 6-4.
This may have led to a particular context. To my knowledge, nothing unusual has happened in Liguria. Just in the high-five, where Andreev teased him saying something like, ‘I beat you, I’m the best’, but nothing more.
Moutet’s coach looks back on the fight
During the warm-up, apparently, the French athlete teased his rival as he trained with volleys.
Raymond added: “It’s something he does once in a while. He comes to the track full of energy, it’s into his thing and it’s part of the bullying too. Maybe it’s It’s a consequence of what happened in Genoa, but I don’t know.”
Then the quarrel at the end of the match: “After the match point, it was Andreev who gave the first blow on the shoulder. Corentin told me that he had told him twice ‘Fuck you’ during the match.
There was a fight at the net. The chair umpire separated them. They wanted to see each other after the match but couldn’t get close.” Then he concluded: “We now have to wait for the report from the ATP, who will question the witnesses, starting with the chair umpire.
I think he wanted to take his time and give his cold verdict.” In the meantime Moutet and his opponent will pay the equivalent of 10,000 euros for their behavior.
