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French Open: Reporter mistakenly congratulates Nicolas Mahut after his loss
The interviewer then admitted he didn’t watch the match to a fuming and incredulous Mahut.

[quote]Talk to any veteran journalist at a bar and each can likely regale you with a story about an awkward moment in an interview.
This one’s a classic though.
An unidentified reporter at a post-match news conference at the French Open congratulated Nicolas Mahut on Monday. The problem? The Frenchman had just lost in four sets to Kazakhstan’s Mikhail Kukushkin.
The interviewer then admitted that he didn’t watch the match to a fuming and incredulous Mahut.
Here’s a transcript:

MODERATOR: Questions in English, please.

REPORTER: Congratulations.
MAHUT: Congratulations? I lost.
REPORTER: You lost? Oh. Okay. So what happened out there?
MAHUT (after three long seconds): Are you serious? Did you watch the match?
REPORTER: No, I didn’t. I was told that you won. I’m sorry.

MAHUT: Questions in French, please.

Mahut made headlines in 2010 when he played John Isner in the longest match in tennis history — more than 11 hours spread over three days in the first round at Wimbledon, with Isner winning 70-68 in the fifth set — and then, incredibly, were forced to play each other in the same round at the same tournament a year later.

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Oppps. Humongous, mistake from reporter? Or insult?.
Nicolas Mahut showed great sportsmanship by not swearing at the reporter.
I’m sure they will both find the funny side of this in the next 20 years or so.

[Shakey]

Lack of preparation.

[andi4kaza]

now that's just nasty....haha preparation

[kellyhound]

[Faline]

ffs