Corentin Moutet said he “hopes you guys didn’t get offended” after swearing seven times in a live BBC television interview at Queen’s.<\/p>\n
France’s Moutet was interviewed on court after beating compatriot Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard 6-7 (5-7) 6-4 7-6 (7-5) across two days in the first round in London.<\/p>\n
He first used an expletive to describe how he felt when Mpetshi Perricard saved a match point with a 142mph second serve.<\/p>\n
When presenter Jenny Drummond asked him not to repeat it, Moutet said it three more times.<\/p>\n
Drummond apologised for the language but the 27-year-old swore again three times as she attempted to continue the interview, and it was ultimately cut short.<\/p>\n
Presenter Clare Balding also apologised for the language afterwards.<\/p>\n
Responding to a censored clip of the incident on Instagram, Moutet wrote: “I was just joking, I hope you guys didn’t get offended. Thanks for the love.”<\/p>\n
World number 36 Moutet is likely to be fined by the ATP Tour for the outburst.<\/p>\n
Moutet has previously been punished by the men’s tour and his national federation for his behaviour.<\/p>\n
He was defaulted from the 2022 Adelaide International for swearing at the umpire after losing the second set against Serbia’s Laslo Djere.<\/p>\n
The French Tennis Federation (FFT) also dropped him in November of that year -meaning he lost his financial aid – because of his behaviour.<\/p>\n
“We cannot condone this type of behaviour. We ask our players and coaches for an exemplary attitude,” the FFT said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Corentin Moutet said he “hopes you guys didn’t get offended” after swearing seven times in a live BBC…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":708091,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":["post-708090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708090","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=708090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/708090\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/708091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=708090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=708090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=708090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}