{"id":747763,"date":"2026-06-19T18:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747763\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:06:08","slug":"french-tennis-player-moutet-fined-40000-for-expletives-in-interview-at-queens-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/747763\/","title":{"rendered":"French tennis player Moutet fined $40,000 for expletives in interview at Queen\u2019s Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LONDON (AP) \u2014 French tennis player Corentin Moutet has been fined $40,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct after using profane language in a post-match interview at Queen\u2019s Club this week, the men\u2019s tennis tour said Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Moutet used an expletive seven times during an on-court interview after a first-round win on Tuesday against countryman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard at the ATP 500 grass-court event in London, which serves as a tune-up before Wimbledon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After using the expletive for a first time, he was asked by the interviewer not to use bad language, but instead Moutet repeated the expletive a further three times before doing so three more times at the end of the interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe player has received a fine of $40,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct,\u201d the ATP said in a statement. \u201cMoutet has confirmed that he will appeal the fine in accordance with ATP rules.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wimbledon starts on June 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The 27-year-old Moutet, who is ranked No. 36 and yet to win an ATP title, had a heated verbal clash with Alexander Bublik last year after a Phoenix Challenger event and the chair umpire had to climb down and separate them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">___<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">AP tennis: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/tennis<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 French tennis player Corentin Moutet has been fined $40,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct after using profane&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":747764,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-747763","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\/747763","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=747763"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747763\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/747764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}