{"id":15422,"date":"2026-06-01T16:59:02","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/it-has-to-be-refereed-by-a-man-french-open-heavily-fines-player-for-very-difficult-for-a-woman-remark-cricket-news\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T16:59:02","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T11:29:02","slug":"it-has-to-be-refereed-by-a-man-french-open-heavily-fines-player-for-very-difficult-for-a-woman-remark-cricket-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/it-has-to-be-refereed-by-a-man-french-open-heavily-fines-player-for-very-difficult-for-a-woman-remark-cricket-news\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It has to be refereed by a man&#8217;: French Open heavily fines player for &#8216;very difficult for a woman&#8217; remark | Cricket News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"e9jwa\">\n<div class=\"vdo_embedd\">\n<div class=\"GfdvZ\">\n<section class=\"_bIDB  clearfix id-r-component leadmedia undefined undefined  E9tg9 \" style=\"top:0px\">\n<div class=\"_bIDB\" data-ua-type=\"1\" onclick=\"stpPgtnAndPrvntDefault(event)\">\n<div class=\"ypVvZ\">\n<div class=\"WGttI\"><img src=\"https:\/\/static.toiimg.com\/thumb\/msid-131440918,imgsize-23084,width-400,height-225,resizemode-4\/french-open-ap-photo.jpg\" alt=\"'It has to be refereed by a man': French Open heavily fines player for 'very difficult for a woman' remark\" title=\"French Open (AP Photo)\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>NEW DELHI: <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/topic\/french-open\" styleobj=\"[object Object]\" class=\"\" commonstate=\"[object Object]\" frmappuse=\"1\">French Open<\/a> organisers have fined Paraguayan player Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 65,000 euros, about half of his tournament earnings, after he made sexist comments about the umpire following his second-round defeat to French teenager Moise Kouame.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"4\"\/>After losing a gruelling five-set match that lasted nearly five hours, Vallejo criticised Brazilian umpire Ana Carvalho, saying, &#8220;This sort of match needs to be umpired by a man.&#8221;<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"6\"\/> <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"8\"\/><span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"10\"\/>He further added, \u201cIt&#8217;s very difficult for a woman to do it.\u201d<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"12\"\/>French Open director Amelie Mauresmo condemned the remarks and confirmed the hefty fine. \u201cThis is clearly unacceptable,\u201d Mauresmo said. \u201cOnce again, such remarks have no place here.\u201d <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"16\"\/>Players who reach the second round earn 130,000 euros, making the penalty roughly half of Vallejo\u2019s prize money.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"18\"\/>Vallejo argued that his comments were linked to crowd control rather than the umpire\u2019s technical ability. He claimed the spectators heavily backed Kouame and that the official struggled to manage them. <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"20\"\/>\u201cIt has to be refereed by a man, because it&#8217;s a very demanding crowd and you need a lot of strength to go against the crowd,\u201d he said.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"23\"\/>The Paraguayan also accused Kouame of slowing the match down, saying the French player \u201ctook up a lot of time on many occasions, lying on the floor or stalling.\u201d <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"25\"\/>He added, \u201cAnd it&#8217;s not normal for the crowd to be shouting for a full minute without any play.\u201d <span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"27\"\/>While acknowledging the challenge of handling such situations, Vallejo maintained that the atmosphere and officiating played a role in the match.<span class=\"id-r-component br\" data-pos=\"29\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/sports\/tennis\/top-stories\/it-has-to-be-refereed-by-a-man-french-open-heavily-fines-player-for-very-difficult-for-a-woman-remark\/articleshow\/131440520.cms\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI: French Open organisers have fined Paraguayan player Adolfo Daniel Vallejo 65,000 euros, about half of his tournament earnings, after he made sexist comments about the umpire following his second-round defeat to French teenager Moise Kouame.After losing a gruelling five-set match that lasted nearly five hours, Vallejo criticised Brazilian umpire Ana Carvalho, saying, &#8220;This [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15423,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15422"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15422\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/banitoday.com\/hi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}