French player Arthur Gea was embroiled in a contentious incident on the opening day of the French Open, as he ran off court for around four minutes following a heated exchange with the umpire.<\/p>\n
In roasting hot conditions in Paris, Gea was embroiled in a tense match against Karen Khachanov when he insisted he needed to leave the court to go to the toilet.<\/p>\n
The umpire did not feel he was asking to take a break at an appropriate moment and encouraged him to play on, with his response leaving little to the imagination.<\/p>\n
\u201cI really can\u2019t,\u201d said an irate Gea. \u201cI need to s***. I feel it\u2019s going to go out. It\u2019s not a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n
He went on to add: \u201cI can\u2019t, I can\u2019t. Just explain the situation. I\u2019m going to s*** on the f****** court, I\u2019m sick. I have diarrhoea.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Everyone loves to hate him\u2019 \u2013 Former British No 1 suggests French Open contender is unpopular<\/a><\/p>\n Jannik Sinner forehand could be an injury threat as respected coach says: \u2018I wouldn\u2019t teach it\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n Khachanov didn\u2019t look impressed by the timing of the break, but he went on to win the match 6-3, 7-6(3), 6-0, with Gea\u2019s energy levels dropping dramatically in the final set.<\/p>\n There is an etiquette in tennis that toilet breaks need to be taken at a moment that does not disadvantage your opponent, but this appeared to be more of a medial issue than a tactical move from Gea.<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s not ideal from the Frenchman\u2019s point of view, but Khachanov has to serve that next game, so I\u2019m sure he was very frustrated he had the delay,\u201d Henman told TNT Sports.<\/p>\n \u201cPerhaps he didn\u2019t deal with it brilliantly, because he lost the next three points to go down 0-40. But then really dug in.<\/p>\n \u201cIf your opponent is suffering with any kind of physical issue, you want to make them work, make them move. You don\u2019t want to make unforced errors. He did manage to turn it around.\u201d<\/p>\n The final result ensured the incident that took place in the first set of the match was forgotten long before the end, with wildcard Gea clearly not fit enough to compete with a player who was ranked a lot higher than him.<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Jannik Sinner rated \u2018best in the world\u2019 in crucial area by Boris Becker<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n The post Roland Garros controversy: \u2018I\u2019m going to s*** on the f****** court\u2019, claims irate French player<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" French player Arthur Gea was embroiled in a contentious incident on the opening day of the French Open, as he ran off court for around four minutes following a heated exchange with the umpire. In roasting hot conditions in Paris, Gea was embroiled in a tense match against Karen Khachanov when he insisted he needed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/h2>\n