beaten, the French Corentin Moutet comes to blows with his opponent (video)

The tone rose between the French Corentin Moutet and the Bulgarian Adrian Andreev, Thursday in the second round of the Challenger of the Orleans Open. At the end of the match, won in three sets by Andreev, the traditional handshake quickly turned into a physical altercation between the two men.

It took the quick intervention of the referee to appease the spirits and restore calm on the court.

“I don’t want to apologize for what happened late in the game,” Moutet wrote on Instagram. “When a player allows himself to say ‘fuck you’ twice while looking me in the eye, I can’t help but make him understand in my own way that these are not things that are done. »

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