Corentin Moutet went wild over a video posted on Twitter by the official ATP profile, and his hard attack then hit former Russian legend Maria Sharapova. The video in question, taken from the NETFLIX series Break Point, shows some of the behaviors that helped create the bad boy image around the figure of Nick Kyrgios.
The French tennis player wrote: “They punish us with big fines when we express ourselves on the court, and then they promote tennis and make money on it. Funny.”
Giving big fines when we express ourselves on the court and then promoting tennis and earning money on those moment ????
Kind of funny https://t.co/g8zN8t7elX— Corentin Moutet (@moutet99) June 24, 2023
A user with a profile picture of Maria Sharapova protested and sparked tempers: “Do you express yourself by cheating?” Moutet didn’t think for a second and immediately replied: “It’s strange that you talk about cheating when you have a picture of Sharapova as your profile picture.”
The reference to the disqualification for doping that hit Sharapova in 2016 due to her positivity to Meldonium in 2016 is clear.
bestie you express yourself by cheating?
— sharafan2004 (@sharafan2004) June 24, 2023
Sharapova on the doping ban
The former Russian tennis player told her version of the facts about her in the documentary Vamos produced by the Spanish platform Movistar +.
She said: “I received an email from the International Tennis Federation, they usually sent simple emails, but this one in particular talked about doping and mentioned a drug called Meldonium. I went to the dictionary to look up that substance, I read Miteronato and I understood everything, I knew what it was.
When I was young I started taking it because I was suffering from health, my father looked for a doctor in Russia, but that doctor didn’t have much experience with athletes. In Russia he gave me this drug that you can get without a prescription, like aspirin.
I was tested from 2006 to 2015 and I never had any problems, then in January 2016 I get this news and I find out that Meldonium has become illegal. When there are several people in a team, each one is responsible for her.
I worked with the doctor and told my manager to check all the banned drugs, it was the end of 2015 and he was having personal issues. He didn’t and we know how that turned out. It was a grave mistake.”
