Tennis stars come to blows by barging and shoving each other as umpire forced to step in
dailystar.co.uktennis etiquette certainly vanished as two players were involved in a pushing match before being separated by the umpire at the Open d'Orleans in France.Number one seed for the ATP Challenge Tour event Corentin Moutet was infuriated by Bulgarian opponent Adrian Andreev during their match, claiming his rival said 'f*** you' twice while looking into his eyes and allegedly threatened him - and asking for the French player to meet him off the court afterwards.World number 247 Andreev came back from a set down to win the bad tempered last-16 match 2-6, 7-6, 7-6.
Afterwards the pair went in for a traditional handshake resulting in an angry exchange of words and the pair bumping shoulders.READ MORE: Tennis fans fume at 'clown' Alexander Bublik over shot with upside-down racket in finalThe argument continued with pushes before the players were separated by the umpire.
Moutet took to Instagram to give his side of the story which led to the incident that was met with boos by the French crowd.He wrote: "I don't want to apologise for what happened late in the game.
When a player allows himself to say 'f*** you' twice while looking me in the eye, I can't help but make him understand in my own way that these are not things that are done."He threatened me and asked me to wait for him at the exit of the court, something I did of course.
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