The sprinkler watered?
After a new defeat, Monday in the first round of the ATP 250 in Estoril, the Frenchman started to lower (a little) his shorts, as if he wanted to show his posterior when he left, all under the whistles of the Portuguese audience.
The reason for his new stroke?
A spectator who laughed at him, while the French multiplied the faults in the first balls.
Very angry with this spectator – it is true disrespectful – Paire collected a penalty point.
During the match, however, he had mastered his nerves by not breaking a racquet and remaining relatively calm.
But the lull was short-lived.
Very present on social networks, the Avignonnais immediately posted a not very classy emoji, a middle finger to be precise.
An insulting tweet quickly deleted, which gave way to screenshots of insults received in recent months, in French but also in English and Spanish.
Insults from frustrated bettors.
But the hot tricolor is unfortunately not the only player on the circuit to suffer permanent insults from frustrated bettors.
"
Is this normal for you?"
“, he wrote.
Obviously not.
Still, the behavior of Paire questions, once again.
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Short side, it's from bad to worse.
The 60th player in the world, dominated by the South Korean Kwon (6-4, 7-5), suffered his… tenth consecutive defeat on the main circuit.
In 2022, his record is distressing with eleven defeats in the first round in twelve events contested on the main circuit.
His arm almost always tenses at the important points.
Drawing.
Against Kwon, who is however not a terror on clay, the Avignonnais only converted one break point out of thirteen.
Since an encouraging third round at the Australian Open and a great victory against Grigor Dimitrov in the 2nd round, the former 17th player in the world has won only one match in a Challenger tournament (second division) on March 17 against the 365th in the world...
Paire experienced the period of restrictions linked to the Covid pandemic very badly and won very few matches last year.
“
I look for solutions every day to change this spiral
,” he also assured on social networks.
He will have to find them very quickly because at this rate he will soon no longer be able to enter directly into the large tables of the main circuit.