You may remember Nicolas Mahut as the guy who lost the longest tennis match in the history of mankind at Wimbledon a few years ago. This year he lost in the first round of the French Open and was the victim of a very different, but equally as peculiar, set of circumstances.
In the post-match press conference, Mahut was told “congratulations” by a reporter after his defeat to Mikhail Kukushkin. It only went downhill from there. Watch the cringeworthy video…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3c494h5mt_E
The transcript in print is equally as hilarious:
The full Nicholas Mahut-Reporter exchange is even more absurd/amusing. #RG14 pic.twitter.com/AAc9WyVZRq
— Ben Rothenberg (@BenRothenberg) May 26, 2014
So many questions about this…
A) How do you go into a post-match press conference as a reporter having not watched said match or verified its result?
B) Who did the reporter talk to that told him the wrong result? Was that person also a terrible sports reporter or was this an act of sabotage?
C) How do you walk back into a press conference after being labeled as the guy who told an athlete congratulations after losing a match?
D) What does it say about English language sports reporting as a whole across the world that Mahut then insisted to take questions only in French?
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