- Paraguayan tennis player Adolfo Daniel Vallejo has been fined €65,000 (£56,000) by French Open organisers after suggesting his second-round match should not have been umpired by a woman .
- Vallejo's comments, made after his five-set defeat last week, stated that such a match "needs to be umpired by a man" due to the perceived difficulty for a woman to manage a demanding crowd.
- The fine, confirmed by Roland Garros director Amelie Mauresmo, represents roughly half of Vallejo's €130,000 (£112,000) prize money for reaching the second round of the tournament.
- French Open organisers swiftly condemned the as "unacceptable" and sexist, asserting that an umpire's competence is determined by professionalism, not gender, and offered support to the match official, Ana Carvalho.
- Vallejo later clarified on X that his words were "taken out of context", stating he was referring specifically to the umpire's handling of the crowd during his nearly five-hour match against French teenager Moise Kouame, rather than women in general.
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