Benoît Paire "By losing I win 10,000 dollars"
French tennis player
Benoît Paire will
not be able to participate in the Tokyo Olympics after the
Executive Committee of the French Tennis Federation (FFT)
decided on Friday to exclude the player from any possible selection for his "profoundly inappropriate behavior".
Paire, current number 45 in the world, in recent months has starred in unpleasant moments on the track. On March 4, at the Buenos Aires tournament, he got into a heated argument with the Spanish judge
Nacho Forcadell
over a serve from the rival that he considered valid. The response of the French tennis player was to spit on the mark left by the ball and later to do it again in the air. Shortly after, after another discussion, he was penalized with the loss of a point. Far from being regretful, Paire tweeted a screenshot of the millions he had earned.
After this event, the president of the FFT,
Gilles Moretton
, spoke with the tennis player to remind him that players must respect the values of sport and tennis. The federation took into account his letter of pardon and did not sanction him. However, it was only a small truce, since on April 11 everything was blown up again after his statements.
"I don't care about tennis. I don't care if I win or lose
," Paire said after his loss to Australian
Jordan Thompson.
in the first round of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000.
In addition, he added that he pocketed 12,000 euros for participating and then he would go home.
From there, the FFT began an internal discussion that has concluded with the decision of this Friday and that has had the approval of the captain of the French national team,
Sébastien Grosjean.
His last performance
Even so, Paire had another controversial performance last Monday at the Conde de Godó in Barcelona, when he faced the Italian
Federico Gaio
.
He fell in the first round and spit again after a referee decision.
But this was not the only thing.
In the third game of the match, he destroyed a racket and kicked the net twice.
Also, he started talking to himself and criticizing himself: "You can't play tennis like that, be like this, damn it. You play against a bad guy. It's impossible. And then you lose the game."
Two days after losing in the first round, he was again the center of criticism by attending the match without a mask that faced his compatriot
Corentin Moutet
against
Daniel Evans.
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