{"id":249673,"date":"2025-10-30T08:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249673\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T08:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T08:16:11","slug":"tension-and-humor-spark-rivalry-in-bublik-moutet-paris-masters-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249673\/","title":{"rendered":"Tension (and humor?) spark rivalry in Bublik-Moutet Paris Masters clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tension and humor mixed in a spirited showdown between Alexander Bublik and Corentin Moutet at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/competitions\/rolex-paris-masters-2025-mens-singles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rolex Paris Masters<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>After Bublik secured a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tennismajors.com\/matches\/atp\/rolex-paris-masters\/corentin-moutet-vs-alexander-bublik\" data-type=\"match\" data-id=\"838896\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">6-3, 7-5<\/a> victory, he lightheartedly responded on court: \u201cHe talked too much before the match. I just had to punish him. It\u2019s nice that he lives in Paris \u2013 it\u2019s not too far by taxi,\u201d injecting humor into the rivalry.<\/p>\n<p>Bublik had just signed the camera lens \u201con the way home\u201d in reference to the Frenchman\u2019s pre-match comments: \u201cI\u2019ll try to send him home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moutet : \u201cPeople who talk, and people who do\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair\u2019s handshake was chilly, fueling memories of their previous heated exchanges earlier in the season.<\/p>\n<p>Their last encounter, in the quarterfinals of the Phoenix Challenger 175, had already been electric: Bublik won 2-6, 7-6, 7-5 in a particularly tense atmosphere. As the Kazakhstani was about to serve for the match, world No. 80 Moutet asked to wait, provoking Bublik\u2019s anger, who snapped back sharply, \u201cI don\u2019t care!\u201d The incident nearly escalated right before the umpire\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>I just had to punish him. It\u2019s nice that he lives in Paris \u2013 it\u2019s not too far by taxi.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patrickmouratoglou.com\/en\/champion-mindset-pre-order\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"mx-auto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><br \/>\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Banner-Social-Media-Facebook-scaled.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"aspect-3-1 mx-auto max-w-full overflow-hidden object-cover md:max-w-xl\"\/><br \/>\n  <\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know live in Dubai,\u201d Moutet reacted. \u201cBut I don\u2019t think it\u2019s personal coming from him. He is like that with many players. He likes to make fun of players when he plays against them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, there are people who talk, and people who do. I think he is part of the first category. There\u2019s no point in getting into a verbal clash \u2014 I\u2019m not into that. I know the real person he is, beyond the character he shows through the media, so there\u2019s no point in talking behind a microphone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bublik will have the racquet talking against Taylor Fritz on Thursday.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tension and humor mixed in a spirited showdown between Alexander Bublik and Corentin Moutet at the Rolex Paris&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249674,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":{"0":"post-249673","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\/249673","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=249673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249673\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249674"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}