{"id":968731,"date":"2026-05-18T12:37:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:37:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/968731\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T12:37:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T12:37:14","slug":"tennis-final-ends-in-chaos-as-players-argue-at-net-and-handshake-snubbed-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/968731\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis final ends in chaos as players argue at net and handshake snubbed | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Bordeaux final on the ATP<\/a> Challenger tour ended in chaos, with Juan Manuel Cerundolo and Raphael Collignon seen arguing at the net. Cerundolo took the title by virtue of a 5-7, 6-1, 7-6 (7-4) victory in the French city, but it was after time was called when things really started to heat up.<\/p>\n

After securing the winning point, Cerundolo and Collignon both marched up towards the net before sharing a brief handshake. The two were seen visibly frustrated and locked in a stern conversation, with the defeated Collignon pointing his finger towards the Argentine.<\/p>\n

This continued right the way up to the umpire\u2019s chair, where Collignon offered a handshake to the man in the middle. However, presumably too busy arguing with his opponent, Cerundolo didn\u2019t bother shaking hands with the umpire and instead marched back to his seat.<\/p>\n

After gathering his thoughts for a second, Cerundolo went over to members of the crowd, who were presumably part of his coaching team and\/or family, to continue the dressing down. He was pointing in the direction of Collignon and didn\u2019t appear best pleased with the situation.<\/p>\n

By the time tensions had cooled, Cerundolo was able to give his verdict on the victory, saying: “Of course it was an amazing match, but I think the key is to stay point by point because every one of them, there were like a lot of rallies, the ground was slow because it rained today. So, I think that the key is to stay point by point and keep winning step by step, and I think that’s what is important.<\/p>\n

The 24-year-old dropped just one set all week in Bordeaux, with that coming in the final against Collignon. He added: “I think everything, as you said, I played really great. I think I improved my backhand this week, and maybe if you say like the key it was these 2 shots that I improved, but yeah, it wasn’t everything.”<\/p>\n

Cerundolo is expected to continue his clay court season at the ATP 250 Geneva Open this week, as preparations for the French Open<\/a> continue. Cerundolo has reached the main draw of Roland-Garros once, but that did come last year when he equalled his best performance at any Grand Slam by reaching the second round.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bordeaux final on the ATP Challenger tour ended in chaos, with Juan Manuel Cerundolo and Raphael Collignon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":968732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4105],"tags":[270439,4719,270442,270443,5066,222453,51645,79,1068,31635,270441,16,270440,15],"class_list":["post-968731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-atp-challenger-tour","tag-atp-tour","tag-bordeaux-challenger","tag-bordeaux-challenger-final","tag-french-open","tag-juan-manuel-cerundolo","tag-raphael-collignon","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-tennis-section","tag-tennis-final-row","tag-uk","tag-umpire-handshake-snub","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116595618741763006","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=968731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/968732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=968731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=968731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=968731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}