{"id":30178,"date":"2021-02-03T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2021-02-03T11:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30178"},"modified":"2021-02-03T15:03:29","modified_gmt":"2021-02-03T15:03:29","slug":"paires-bizarre-service-blunders-stun-commentators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30178","title":{"rendered":"Paire&#039;s bizarre service blunders stun commentators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>French world no. 28 <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/benoit-paire\" title=\"Benoit Paire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Benoit Paire<\/a> has stunned commentators in one of the most bizarre service games you are ever likely to see in his <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/atp-cup\" title=\"ATP Cup\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ATP Cup<\/a> clash against <a href=\"https:\/\/wwos.nine.com.au\/tennis\/fabio-fognini\" title=\"Fabio Fognini\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fabio Fognini<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Paire faced off against Fabio Fognini in the first leg of France and Italy&#x27;s ATP Cup tie on Wednesday, and while the Italian ran away with the 6-1 7-6 win, it was Paire&#x27;s service game that took the headlines.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred during the opening set with Paire serving and the scores tied 1-1, when he unleashed an incredible eight consecutive faults.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman was serving while looking into the sun and struggled mightily to locate his radar, with Fognini also left bemused at one stage as he broke serve without ever hitting the ball.<\/p>\n<p><img data-id=\"b3eb1867-6fb5-465e-94c3-c54d8a3eacf1\" src=\"https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b3eb1867-6fb5-465e-94c3-c54d8a3eacf1\" alt=\"Benoit Paire Fabio Fognini\" data-width=\"1396\" data-height=\"785\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Paire&#x27;s incredible blunder also left the commentary team of Geoff Masters and Colin Fleming stunned.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Goodness me! Well that&#x27;s extraordinary,&quot; Masters exclaimed on Nine&#x27;s coverage.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#x27;m not sure that I&#x27;ve seen that ever before at this level. A bunch of double-faults and Fognini is gifted the break.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He&#x27;s clearly struggling with the sun as you&#x27;re seeing,&quot; Fleming added.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.nine.com.au\/login?client_id=wwos&amp;redirect_uri=https%3A%2F%2Fwwos.nine.com.au&amp;newsletter=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" title=\"For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!\"><strong><em>For a daily dose of the best of the breaking news and exclusive content from Wide World of Sports, subscribe to our newsletter by clicking here!<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>French world no. 28 Benoit Paire has stunned commentators in one of the most bizarre service games you are ever likely to see in his <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=30178\" title=\"Paire&#039;s bizarre service blunders stun commentators\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30180,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30178\/revisions\/30180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}