Frenchman Elliot Benchetrit has taken the tide on social media after his argument with a referee at the Australian Open. In his third qualifying match, the 231st player in the world asked a ball collector to peel a banana before John Blom took it back. "What is the next step, grapes?" Rebelled former tenniswoman Martina Navratilova. “John [Blom, the referee] made the right decision, that's for sure. "
The player Benchetrit groans because the ball collector has not peeled his banana - the French touch! pic.twitter.com/UQ9DwTtKRl
- Wissem (@Wissem_Rassas) January 20, 2020After his elimination on Tuesday, in the first round against Yuichi Sugita (6-2, 6-0, 6-3), Benchetrit returned to this controversy on the L'Equipe website.
“I put powder on my hands to stop sweating. The bananas are really hard to open here because there is no stem. I kindly ask the collector who had already opened a banana for me at the start of the match, but the referee intervened at that time, he explained. He said to me, "He's not your slave, you don't have to ask him that. He said slave! He hadn't spoken to me once about the match, behind he told me to shut up. It ignited on its own when there was nothing special. "
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