{"id":272152,"date":"2026-06-19T18:51:36","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272152\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T18:51:36","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T18:51:36","slug":"corentin-moutet-hit-with-huge-fine-for-deliberately-swearing-in-queens-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/272152\/","title":{"rendered":"Corentin Moutet hit with huge fine for deliberately swearing in Queen’s interview"},"content":{"rendered":"

Corentin Moutet has been hit with a heavy fine for deliberately swearing during an on-court interview at Queen’s Club.<\/p>\n

The controversial French player said the ‘F-word’ seven times during a BBC interview\u00a0following his first-round win over Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Moutet<\/a> initially swore unintentionally when asked about Mpetshi Perricard’s massive serve, saying: “When he hits me at 142, I was like f***!”<\/p>\n

He was warned by the interviewer to watch his language, to which a grinning Moutet uttered a further three expletives.<\/p>\n

One final chance was given to Moutet, until he deliberately said “f*** f*** f***” three more times and the interview was cut short.<\/p>\n

The ATP announced on Friday that Moutet has been hit with a $40,000 fine for “unsportsmanlike conduct” and “use of profane language during his post-match interview.”<\/p>\n

Moutet is planning to appeal the fine according to the ATP’s rules.<\/p>\n

He earned around \u00a333,000 for reaching the second round, meaning the punishment has erased a significant chunk of his prize money for the week.<\/p>\n

It equates to more than 90 per cent of his prize money, or around \u00a34,300 per swear word used.<\/p>\n

Moutet was eliminated in round two by Spain’s Alejandro Davidovich Fokina<\/a> in straight sets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corentin Moutet has been hit with a heavy fine for deliberately swearing during an on-court interview at Queen’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-272152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272152","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=272152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}