The last time Alexander Bublik and Corentin Moutet met they nearly came to blows after the match. This time around, the words were weapons.
Bublik played flawless tennis on Wednesday night in Paris, taking out Moutet 6-3, 7-5. After the match he signed the camera “On the way home.”
Those words were in reference to Moutet’s comments made prior to the match, apparently.
“He talked too much before the match, and I just had to punish him. I had no other option,” Bublik said on court after his win. .
“He said that he will do everything to send me home, so it’s nice that he lives in Paris and it’s not too far with the taxi.”
When the pair met at the Phoenix Challenger in March things were much uglier. So it’s no surprise that the war of words continued, even with seven months in between the matches.