French player Corentin Moutet was disqualified from the ATP event in Adelaide on Thursday after he insulted an official.
In his second-round match against Laslo Djere, Moutet had taken a 6-4, 4-2 lead. But the tide started to turn after the Serb broke Moutet’s serve and leveled the set 4-4.
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The French player had been unhappy about some of the calls made by the umpire up until then.
But he lost his temper as Djere came back from 40-0 down in the twelfth game to win the set 7-5.
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A frustrated Moutet hurled a string of ‘F**k you’s at the umpire. The supervisor intervened during the chageover and the officials decided to disqualify the 22-year-old Moutet.
In an Instagram Story, World No 92 Moutet wrote “Different rules, different person. They’ll treat me good when they’ll need me.”
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Djere will take on third seed Marin Cilic in the quarterfinal.
