The French tennis player was threatened to kill when he was on the net

"The next time you will kill you. Someday there will be a person who trials you ", Moutet recounts the threat of Kotov on social network X, related to the match against Kotov in late April

then exceeded the number 82 in the world to delete the post, but many people have taken it in time.

At the end of the article, Moutet criticized ATP Tour when this organization could not find solutions to prevent threatening acts on the field. A few weeks earlier, the 26 -year -old also contradicted Alexander Bublik to the point of meeting the problem in the yard. This match moutet beat the racket, then announced the giving up.

Moutet said he had lost sleep because of Kotov's threat, but did not give more clear evidence of the incident. The match between Moutet and Kotov was postponed when the three-5-5 set set ratio was 5-5. It was started again the next day and Moutet won 7-5. The two players left the field without shaking hands, but no controversy happened. He used to reach the final of Qatar 2020 and lost to Andray Rubleev. Most of Moutet's success is in the Challenger and ITF Tour system, where he won 12 championships after 17 finals.

Moutet had been involved in another scandal at the Challenger level in 2022, when he and Adrian Andreev made an appointment to fight. In the Open D 'Orleans, Moutet is the number one seed but loses the opponent 247 ATP 6-2, 6-7, 6-7. The two many times expressed uncomfortable attitude to the opponent in the match, before fighting while greeting after the battle. It was necessary to ask the referee and the interventions security guards, Moutet and Andreev did not rush into each other.

Pavel Kotov has not won the ATP Tour title and has just once reached the Final of Stockholm expanding 2023, losing to Monfils Ga. The Russian player has three Challenger Tour titles, after 5 years of launching this system.