{"id":651202,"date":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651202\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T22:51:11","slug":"tennis-player-corentin-moutet-receives-warning-for-pulling-down-shorts-in-frustration-after-losing-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/651202\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis player Corentin Moutet receives warning for pulling down shorts in frustration after losing point"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s not unusual to see tennis players meltdown during a match. Verbal altercations with umpires, broken rackets and errant tennis balls flying into the stands are the standard course of actions for frustrated players.<\/p>\n<p>But Corentin Moutet decided to take things to a whole other level Monday. During a match with Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, Moutet pulled his shorts down after losing a point.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>It was \u2026 a bizarre moment for everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p>So, what exactly is the punishment for a player pulling down their pants in the middle of a match? In this instance, Moutet received a warning for unsportsmanlike conduct for his actions. Given the situation, Moutet may have been lucky his punishment wasn\u2019t more severe.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, it\u2019s not the first time a tennis player has pulled down their pants on the court. The same thing happened in 2004, only it was in celebration of winning a point.<\/p>\n<p>Marat Safin was the guilty party in that match.<\/p>\n<p>Safin was assessed a one-point penalty for the gesture. Despite that, he wound up winning the match and advancing. When asked <a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/sports\/tennis\/french04\/news\/story?id=1811412\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:about the situation;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;about the situation&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\">about the situation<\/a> after the match, Safin asked, \u201cWhat\u2019s bad about [pulling down your shorts in celebration]?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Any chance of Moutet repeating his antics will have to wait until his next event. Moutet lost to Fokina on Monday 6-4, 6-4. The loss eliminated Moutet from the Hamburg Open.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Fokina will advance to the Round of 16, where he\u2019ll face No. 3-ranked Alex de Minaur. Here\u2019s hoping both competitors keep their cool \u2014 and their shorts \u2014 in that match.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not unusual to see tennis players meltdown during a match. Verbal altercations with umpires, broken rackets and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":651203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[29091,29384,280869,280868,99,428,8723,37212],"class_list":["post-651202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-alejandro-davidovich-fokina","tag-corentin-moutet","tag-eurosport-france","tag-marat-safin","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-player","tag-tennis-players"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=651202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/651202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/651203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=651202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=651202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=651202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}