From laughter to tears. Just hours after his victory at the Rolex Paris Masters against Borna Coric (3-6, 6-3, 6-4), L’Équipe revealed that tennis player Corentin Moutet had been expelled from the FFT due to repeated behavior moved on the courts.
A decision which would have been announced “in recent days”, specifies the newspaper. “The DTN (national technical directorate) warned him that it was ousting him from the federal structures for incompatibility” and, consequently, “will no longer have any help for some of the fees he paid to his coach”.
A decision which comes after repeated incidents on the tennis courts, and behavior visibly too limited on the part of Moutet in the eyes of the FFT. Jumbled up, he had been disqualified in Adelaide for insulting the referee, had come to blows with his opponent Adrian Andreev at the end of September in Orleans or had abandoned his match in Naples at the end of October, complaining of poor playing conditions, throwing in passing his racket with brutality.
This Wednesday, Moutet must face the Briton Cameron Norrie, in the sixteenth final of the Parisian Masters 1000. As a symbol of the current ills of French tennis because the Federation ousts a player who is indeed talented but who fails to channel himself over time. He is however the only Habs to have managed to climb to the second round with Richard Gasquet and Gilles Simon…
