{"id":503421,"date":"2026-05-25T20:50:59","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T20:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=503421"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:26:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:26:18","slug":"kokkinakis-booed-in-fiery-umpire-clash-amid-epic-comeback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/?p=503421","title":{"rendered":"Kokkinakis booed in fiery umpire clash amid epic comeback"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanasi Kokkinakis<\/a> battled a parochial home crowd and fought back from a set down to outlast French left-hander Terence Atmane to advance in Paris<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Australian had complained of shoulder issues ahead of the match but found a way at \ufefftwo sets to one down, then 5-3 and 30-0 in the decider to take the match 6-7(5-7), 6-2, 4-6, 6-3, 7-5.<\/p>\n

It was the 16th time the South Australian had gone the distance in his career, scoring his ninth victory in a deciding set, in more than four hours of court time.<\/p>\n

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While the heat posed an issue for both players, Kokkinakis had the added hurdle of a loud home crowd, who baited him throughout, especially late in the fourth set.<\/p>\n

Kokkinakis served an ace \ufeffas he led 5-2, which was disputed by Atmane, leading to the chair umpire to assess the mark on court.<\/p>\n

\"Thanasi<\/p>\n

It was ruled a fault, but after further inspection the point was given to the Aussie, following a lengthy chat on court with the official and Atmane.<\/p>\n

That riled up the crowd even more as they whistled and booed as discussions were held.<\/p>\n

The boos continued after the point was awarded to Kokkinakis and his next serve had to be delayed.\ufeff<\/p>\n

\ufeff"My tennis level, without sounding like an idiot, I'm not that surprised," Kokkinakis said in his press conference.<\/p>\n

Watch all the action from Roland-Garros 2026<\/strong><\/em> live and on demand on Stan Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/a>, with centre court in 4K UHD. World class coverage also on 9Gem and<\/strong><\/em> streaming on 9Now<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

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"I've missed so much time in my career, and I feel like time and time again I've been able to prove and have some good wins after that time.<\/p>\n

"But I think to come back after such little tennis on a grand slam stage and in these conditions against a good player from France, as well, it's probably my best mental effort considering where I was."<\/p>\n

Elsewhere, Aussie stars Alex de Minaur and Daria Kasatkina also braved the hot conditions to prevail.<\/p>\n

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De Minaur, the world No.7, defeated British qualifier Toby Samuel 6-4, 6-4, 6-2 while Kasatkina, who fell to her lowest ranking for 11 years last month, won 6-4, 6-4 against Turkey's Zeynep Sonmez.<\/p>\n

Aussie teenager Emerson Jones was not so lucky, hammered 6-1, 6-2 by Iga Swiatek in an hour, after needing treatment for a blister on her hand after the first set.<\/p>\n

Australian women's No.1 Maya Joint was outclassed 6-1, 6-2 by 28th seed Anastasia Potapova in 71 minutes.<\/p>\n

Talia Gibson was eliminated Kazakh Yulia Putintseva 4-6, 6-4, 6-1.<\/p>\n

American Tommy Paul also ended Rinky Hijikata's campaign with a 4-6, 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory while Sydney player Aleksandar Vukic went down 6-3 6-3 7-6 (7-4) to Belgian Raphael Collignon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thanasi Kokkinakis battled a parochial home crowd and fought back from a set down to outlast French left-hander Terence Atmane to advance in Paris. The […]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":503423,"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\/503421"}],"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=503421"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":503427,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503421\/revisions\/503427"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/503423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=503421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=503421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportinfo.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=503421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}