Gaël Monfils.
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AFP
The French Gaël Monfils posted on his Instagram account on Friday numerous insults, some of which were racist, received via social networks after his defeat Thursday at the Masters 1000 in Rome.
"Silly black monkey", "black bastard", "fucking slave", "looser" ... In a story starting with the message "watch out for the eyes", the world number 9 scrolls through several messages that were visibly addressed to him in the night after his defeat in Rome.
Gaël Monfils who is insulted with racist attacks because he lost his match.
Not by disappointed supporters (which would already be very serious) but by frustrated punters who ruin all that is beautiful in sport 🤮 pic.twitter.com/S3hLt7fDbX
- Clémentine Rebillat (@clerebillat) September 18, 2020
A "dirty match" before Roland
Generally all very insulting messages for him or his relatives and for some frankly racist, to which Gaël Monfils responds most often with humor or with simple emoticons of black hands.
“Unfortunately I was thoroughly, but very bad,” he wrote above the message of a user pointing out his weakness.
And Monfils concludes: "Not a nice evening, but I hope to come back stronger".
The Frenchman made his return to Rome after more than six months without a game, due to the coronavirus pandemic.
But he was eliminated (6-2, 6-4) as soon as he entered the competition in the second round by the German Dominik Koepfer, 97th in the world, from qualifying.
“It was really bad.
It frustrates me enormously to have played so badly, ”had railed at a press conference Gaël Monfils, just after this“ dirty match ”, ten days before the start of Roland Garros.
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