This time, the Federation said stop.

On a thread for several weeks because of his behavior, Benoit Paire will be deprived of the Olympic Games, announced the new president of the FFT Gilles Moretton on Friday.

“In terms of responsibility, for our sport and for France, on the proposal of the DTN and in consultation with Sébastien Grosjean, the Comex has decided to exclude Benoît Paire from the future list of players who will represent the FFT and France this summer in Tokyo.

His behavior which has been deeply inappropriate since the start of the year seriously undermines the values ​​of sport, like tennis, and is totally incompatible with the Olympic spirit ”.

Already pointed out at the 2016 Olympics

The 35th player in the world, who stands out with his attitude and his unconstructive statements by accumulating defeats since January, had yet obtained a reprieve in early March after writing a letter of apology to the FFT ethics committee in which he promised to work on itself.

Good resolutions that were shattered in Monte Carlo, where Paire again sent the whole world out after his defeat against Thompson in the first round.

“Frankly, I don't give a damn about this game. I have a double again and then I break home, two hours away. Arriving in cemeteries like this depresses me a bit. […] I took twelve thousand bullets! You're going to say he's still talking a lot of money. I took 12,000 euros to be in the quiet hotel. Then I go home. It's perfect ".

Words "deeply contrary to the values ​​of tennis, which not only outraged the whole tennis family but shocked far beyond", writes the FFT, which however offers the Avignon "support to help them better cross the current period, so that he can regain serenity, confidence and the pleasure of playing and demonstrate in the future an irreproachable behavior, worthy of his talent ”.

Good luck, especially since Paire does not seem to attach extraordinary importance to the Olympic spirit, given his attitude in Rio in 2016.

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