ATP Adelaide: Corentin Moutet disqualified after insulting the referee
The Frenchman Corentin Moutet was disqualified in the round of 16 at the ATP World Tour 250 event in Adelaide because of several inappropriate donations to the chair arbitrator.
by tennisnet.com
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Jan 05, 2022, 04:08 pm
Corentin Moutet was already 67th in the ATP ranking in May of the previous year, but a weak second half of the year caused the young man from Paris to slip back to 92nd place. The year 2022 did not start particularly happily for the French, but it is not necessarily due to a poor playful performance, but to his apparently weak nerves.
Moutet played his round of 16 match against the Serbian Laslo Djere at the ATP hard court event in Adelaide on Wednesday when he had three chances after winning the first set (6: 4) in the second round with a score of 5: 6 and 40: 0 left a tie-break and lost the set 5: 7. In one of the decisive rallies, the 22-year-old apparently did not really agree with a decision by the chair referee.
Moutet falls out of the top 100
The displeasure resulted in insulting the official when changing sides - a "Fuck you" could also be clearly heard over the international broadcast signal. Djere was amazed when he came back from a toilet break before the supposedly decisive round and was confronted with the disqualification of his opponent.
Since Moutet will lose the points from the final in Doha 2020 next Monday, he will at best find himself in 113th place in the ATP rankings. It is the young Frenchman's first disqualification on the ATP tour.