By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Saturday, Might 10, 2025
Photograph credit score: Wuxi Challenger
Elite gamers hold cool beneath strain.
Terence Atmane broke the ice with one swift kick at present.
A annoyed Atmane kicked the cooler prompting fast chilly karma.
The fallen cooler spit up an ice storm onto the courtroom inflicting a delay throughout Atmane’s match towards Aussie Alex Bolt on the Wuxi Challenger on onerous courtroom.
Wuxi Ch SF: To begin with, properly carried out to Alex Bolt for this go (4th recreation, 1st set) 👏Secondly, Terence Atmane??? 💀 bro went annoyed 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) Might 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 courtroom 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.
