{"id":249598,"date":"2025-10-30T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249598\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T07:25:10","slug":"nighty-night-french-fans-tennis-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249598\/","title":{"rendered":"Nighty-Night French Fans \u2013 Tennis Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, October 29, 2025<br \/>Photo credit: Tennis TV Screen Shot<\/p>\n<p>Alejandro Davidovich Fokina wasn\u2019t sleeping on the job today\u2014he was too busy delivering nap time celebration after a job well done.<\/p>\n<p>Annoyed by the loud cheering of French fans during his 7-6(5), 6-4 win over French wild card Arthur Cazaux, Davidovich Fokina put French fans in a sleeper hold with his nighty-night celebration expression.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https;\/\/www.tennisexpress.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\" noreferrer noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-lazyloaded=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"610\" height=\"130\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trick-Treat-610-x-130-px.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-57745\"  data-\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch Davidovich Fokina\u2014not once but twice\u2014deliver the mocking sleeper hold move to French fans after his victory. First the Spaniard plays the sleeper right after winning match point, then following the post-match handshake, he returns to the center of the court to hit French fans with a double dose of doze, bellowing \u201cCome on!\u201d for good measure.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"fr\" dir=\"ltr\">Bonne nuit, Paris \ud83d\ude34<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/alexdavidovich1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@alexdavidovich1<\/a> finishes off Cazaux 7-6 6-4 at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/RolexParisMasters?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#RolexParisMasters<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/7uIxBcEBIq\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/7uIxBcEBIq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tennis TV (@TennisTV) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TennisTV\/status\/1983585332315459994?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">October 29, 2025<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>It was as if Basel finalist Davidovich Fokina\u2019s dozy denouement was his way of saying: \u201cHey French fans, go sleep on this tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Needless to say, the French crowd on Court 2 didn\u2019t take the Spaniard\u2019s slight in stride as some responded with jeers.<\/p>\n<p>Asked his reaction to the sleeping gesture, Cazaux said the victor earned his right to celebration, but suggested French fans may be even more fiercely against the Spaniard in his next match.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is a great atmosphere here in La Defense [Arena]. It was great,\u201d Cazaux said. \u201cI enjoyed that<br \/>atmosphere with the public, but that\u2019s it. That\u2019s the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe made his little celebration at the end. Everybody reacts their own way. It\u2019s never easy to have the public against you. That\u2019s the way he reacted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t know whether I would have reacted in the same way, but all I can do is shut up, because he played his match. He was better than I was. All I can say is bravo. It won\u2019t be my fault if there is not very many French people behind him in the next rounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It was Davidovich Fokina\u2019s second straight victory over a French foe following his opening-round win over lucky loser Valentin Royer.<\/p>\n<p>No time for nap time for Davidovich Fokina. Next up for the 15th-seeded Spaniard is defending champion Alexander Zverev.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Wednesday, October 29, 2025Photo credit: Tennis TV Screen Shot Alejandro Davidovich Fokina wasn\u2019t sleeping&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-249598","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}