📹 Tadej Pogacar and Partner Urska Zigart ignore unwritten tennis rule, booed by French crowd
CyclingMonday, 07 April 2025 at 20:38
On Sunday, he won the Tour of Flanders, but on Monday, he was already present as a spectator at another sport. Tadej Pogacar was with his partner Urska Zigart at the tennis tournament in Monte Carlo, but there, he accidentally broke an unwritten rule in that sport and was booed by his fellow spectators.
Pogacar was present at the match between the Chinese Yunchaokete Bu and the Italian Lorenzo Musetti but returned to his seat too late after a short stop. In tennis, the unwritten rule is that the audience must always be seated when the game is in progress.
The umpire, therefore, decided to address Pogacar and Zigart. "Please take your seats. We are waiting for you," she said through the microphone to the Slovenian pair. The rest of the audience then began to boo and even whistled a little before they eventually took their seats, albeit a little late. Unintentionally, of course.
Pogacar flew back home the same evening after the Tour of Flanders, which limited his press conference as the winner to eight minutes. This Sunday, he will compete in Paris-Roubaix for the first time in his career.
Video: Tadej Pogacar booed at tennis match in Monte Carlo
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- Such negative comments that are truly inappropriate and actually ridiculous. He sounds like an old man, bitter that he can't race anymore. Why can't he just be gracious? Or just shut up. Instead of howling for attention, in such a rude manner. Must be Dementia creeping in. We are all living in the Now. Records are there, and some are being broken, some are unapproachable. If he doesn't like it, and it makes him sick, maybe he ought start watching some other sport. Don't want the old mans health to be upset.
reemmo031-03-2025 - Roger De Vlaeminck inspires me to create a new beer: "Bitter Old Twat Belgian".JackInhof31-03-2025
- Shoot, I'll ride it for 1/10 of what his pay for that day is😅Veganpotter30-03-2025
- What is this? The Lance Armstrong daily cheaters channel? I could care less about Johan and Lance the seven times cheater. Greg Lemond was right all along, Why don't you write about that instead of these two knuckleheads.velodrone28-03-2025
- Are we all doomed to hear from Lance Armstrong and Johan bruneel until the end of time? It's not enough the stain they left on cycling? Do we have to see that shadow forever?bigyakman26-03-2025
- I am not sure if it is the hardest to win. In Flanders and Roubaix well before the finish the Peleton will be decimated and the race will normally be won by the best rider of the day or maybe 2nd or 3rd in case of a mechanical or unlucky break especially in case of Roubaix. In San Remo just before the finish there will still be several riders in contention and they are hard to ditch. For the best riders it is a race hard to win since it is not so selective. But if you are not a top 5 rider but still a top 10 rider this race is your best change to win. You will see more Milan San remo Winners with only 1 monument win than any other monumentsJoostmehrtens19-03-2025
- "fap fap fap oh Lance oh oh OHHHHHHH" again. Does he pay you to dredge up people with nice things to say about him? He was an giant a$$hole to people. It is a fact. Whatever his contrition about the doping, he is unapologetic about being a giant a$$hole to people. (Why yes, I do only login to complain. *I* am however only a giant a$$hole to people who laud giant a$$holes.)ericjensenridesbikes25-02-2025
- Remco is still very young. And injuries can absolutely keep you from overdoing it and getting worse. The recent Remco accident didn't keep him from being able to ride a recumbent inside. Wout's knee is a different story thoughVeganpotter23-01-2025
- Van der Poel style is winning by a half a lap and leading the race from the end of the second lap.
Barnes127420-01-2025 - If she thinks talent alone will put her there she will not see many podium finishes much less a GC finish.....work as a team utilizing tactics to consistently be at the top.Germanrazor10-01-2025