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Adolfo Daniel Vallejo was fined fractional his French Open prize wealth aft helium said his second-round lucifer should not person been umpired by a woman, the tourney manager announced connected Monday (June 1, 2026).
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Vallejo mislaid to French teen Moise Kouame past week aft a tense five-set conflict that lasted astir 5 hours. He aboriginal told the tennis website Clay that "this benignant of lucifer needs to beryllium umpired by a man.”
Following his 6-3, 7-5, 3-6, 2-6, 7-6 (8) loss, Vallejo added: “It’s precise hard for a pistillate to bash it.”
Roland Garros manager Amelie Mauresmo told reporters astatine the French Open that a €65,000 ($76,000) good was handed down to the player, “representing astir fractional of his prize money.”
“This is intelligibly unacceptable,” Mauresmo said. “Once again, specified remarks person nary spot here.”
Players reaching the 2nd circular astatine the French Open person €130,000.
Vallejo, from Paraguay, said the umpire, Ana Carvalho from Brazil, did not power the spectators.
“It has to beryllium refereed by a man, due to the fact that it’s a precise demanding assemblage and you request a batch of spot to spell against the crowd,” helium said. “The assemblage was precise retired of line, but I recognize they’re supporting their compatriot. It’s rather an aggravated assemblage and that’s wherefore I was prepared; I already knew it would beryllium similar that and, to beryllium honest, it didn’t harm me, but alternatively strengthened him.”
Vallejo added that Kouame “took up a batch of clip connected galore occasions, lying connected the level oregon stalling.”
“And it’s not mean for the assemblage to beryllium shouting for a afloat infinitesimal without immoderate play. In a lucifer wherever the carnal facet matters truthful much, if you springiness a subordinate a batch of time, he’s evidently going to instrumentality vantage of it. The information is, it’s besides hard for a referee to negociate this situation.”
