{"id":272043,"date":"2026-06-19T16:07:50","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272043\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T16:07:50","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T16:07:50","slug":"corentin-moutet-fined-40000-for-f-bomb-filled-queens-club-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272043\/","title":{"rendered":"Corentin Moutet fined $40,000 for f-bomb-filled Queen\u2019s Club interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON \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>Moutet <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/06\/17\/sports\/corentin-moutet-drops-seven-f-bombs-in-chaotic-queens-interview\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">used an expletive seven times<\/a> 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>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><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.43417367;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39728616\" width=\"846\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/corentin-moutet-france-reacts-match-131404459.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis player Corentin Moutet in a white shirt and wristband, smiling and holding a racket.\" class=\"wp-image-39728616\"  \/>Corentin Moutet of France reacts during his match against Alejandro Davidovich Fokina of Spain on day eleven of the Tennis Championships at The Queen\u2019s Club. Steven Paston\/PA via AP<\/p>\n<p>\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>Wimbledon starts on June 29.<\/p>\n<p>Warning: Graphic language<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON \u2014 French tennis player Corentin Moutet has been fined $40,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct after using profane language&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272044,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[104141,4043,15445,9,24,63,122,124,123,319,15547,101998],"class_list":["post-272043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-cursing","tag-london","tag-menswear","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-match"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}