Moutet puts it again: it bursts the racket and retires among ‘MVP’ songs to the referee

Wednesday 23rd April 2025 06:06 PM

The external tracks of the Magic Box usually take strange games, with all kinds of rocambolesque stories and gathering several of the most strong personalities of the circuit. Even more so if it is a first round like this Wednesday, in which The protagonist of the day was Corentin Moutet. The Frenchman, 26 years old and 82nd in the world, usually leaves striking moments in Madrid Open, and in the memory is his last year against JUCHENG SHANG of four hours. This time, Moutet did not finish his encounter in front of his compatriot Harold Mayot (23 and 160º), and his abrupt retirement caused him to dismiss from the 6 Madrid track between boos of the public.

With 6-3 and 3-2 (30-15) on the scoreboard, Moutet could not respond to a winner of his rival and paid him with his racket, destroying her against the ground. The Frenchman received a point of punishment that cost him the game, and at that time he decided to retire. He threatened to give the racket broken to an amateur, shake hands with the referee of the encounter, Mohamed Lahyani, also to his adversary, and hurried out of the track, without any apparent physical problem. The boos he received from the public contrasted with the ‘MVP’ songs that the Swedish referee took, blunt in your punishment to Moutet. Lahyani could not help laughing at such a situation.

Of the rest of the day, the main news was in the victory of the Italian Federico Cinà, only 18 years old and 373º of the world ranking, which was also imposed on the guest Coleman Wong, 20 and 169º, by 7-6 (5) and 6-1. Cinà, who achieved the second triumph of Masters 1,000 of his career (already won a meeting in Miami), also became the Second younger in Madrid’s history operate in adding a victorysurpassing Rafa Nadal and only behind Carlos Alcaraz. His next stop will be the American Seb Korda, 23rd favorite. In addition, the French cane Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard fell to the Argentine specialist in whipped land Mariano Navone (double 6-4).