By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Saturday, Might 10, 2025
Photograph credit score: Wuxi Challenger
Elite gamers maintain cool beneath stress.
Terence Atmane broke the ice with one swift kick at present.
A pissed off Atmane kicked the cooler prompting fast chilly karma.
The fallen cooler spit up an ice storm onto the court docket inflicting a delay throughout Atmane’s match towards Aussie Alex Bolt on the Wuxi Challenger on arduous court docket.
Wuxi Ch SF: To begin with, nicely accomplished to Alex Bolt for this go (4th recreation, 1st set) 👏Secondly, Terence Atmane??? 💀 bro went pissed off I see however not the play being delayed now over- he kicked the ice field, it fell, delayed play 🙃
🎥 @ATPChallenger pic.twitter.com/8pv02GPLvs
— stateofsport21 // raz (she/her) (@eretzsport022) May 10, 2025
The spillage prompted a delay as a clean-up crew got here out to take away the mess.
In the meantime, the third-seeded Atmane, like a person knocking over soda bottles on the grocery store, moved to the opposite aspect of the court docket as if distancing himself from the ice.
Atmane was hit with an unsportsmanlike habits warning and Bolt went on to win the match 6-3, 6-4 and attain the ultimate.
