{"id":691104,"date":"2026-05-24T18:34:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:34:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691104\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:34:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:34:15","slug":"arthur-gea-pleads-for-bathroom-break-to-umpire-on-video-during-debut-match-at-roland-garros","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/691104\/","title":{"rendered":"Arthur Gea Pleads for Bathroom Break to Umpire on Video During Debut Match at Roland-Garros"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">It&#8217;s safe to say Arthur Gea&#8217;s Roland-Garros debut did not go as planned Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">As the <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/arthur-gea-bathroom-break-french-open-3c031bafb4dd161fb074ccadb091e6d1\">Associated Press<\/a> detailed, Gea pleaded with the chair umpire for a break during the first set against Karen Khachanov because he needed to use the restroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">&#8220;I need to go to the bathroom. I can&#8217;t move anymore. I&#8217;m going to (go) on the court,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Khachanov protested since bathroom breaks are only permitted between sets and this happened when it was 4-2, but Gea said the umpire allowed it due to &#8220;medical circumstances.&#8221; He also explained he was given some medicine to help his stomach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Such rules about when breaks are allowed contributed to Flavio Cobolli&#8217;s <a class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-inherit MuiLink-root MuiLink-underlineAlways MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__ui__link__medium_strong css-lu48cp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/25362417-bathroom-rule-forces-flavio-cobolli-out-australian-open-what-happened-tennis-star\">loss to<\/a> Arthur Fery at the 2026 Australian Open in January. Cobolli said he was dealing with a stomach issue that became worse during the match because he was only able to take a bathroom break in between sets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">While Khachanov protested the break on Sunday, he still ended up with the 6-3, 7-6 (3), 6-0 victory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s safe to say Arthur Gea&#8217;s Roland-Garros debut did not go as planned Sunday. As the Associated Press&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":691105,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-691104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691104","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=691104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/691104\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/691105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=691104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=691104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=691104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}