ATP Slaps Corentin Moutet With $40,000 Fine After Queen's Club Interview Outburst

French tennis player Corentin Moutet has been ordered to pay a $40,000 fine after a live interview at Queen's Club filled with profanity left him with almost none of the prize money he picked up at the tournament.

The 27-year-old earned roughly £32,800 for reaching the second round before the ATP Tour handed down the maximum penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. Moutet has already filed an appeal.

The episode unfolded after his first-round victory over fellow Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard. During the on-court interview that followed, Moutet used offensive language repeatedly. When he was asked to stop repeating a particular word, he pressed on anyway until the broadcast was cut short.

Presenter Clare Balding later apologised to viewers for the language that went out on air.

Moutet, who went on to lose in the last 16 to Alejandro Davidovich Fokina, wrote on social media that he had been joking and did not mean to offend anyone.

This is not the first time discipline has caught up with him. He received a default in 2022, and the French Tennis Federation once suspended its financial support over concerns about his behaviour.