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When nature calls, sometimes you just have to answer.
During his third round match at the French Open, Australian tennis player Thanasi Kokkinakis was left stunned after apparently being denied a toilet break by the referee.
After losing the second set, Kokkinakis – who had taken a bathroom break after the first set – approached chair umpire Katarzyna Radwan-Cho.
“All I’m asking is that you try to pee,” he told her. “Now you tell me I have 50 seconds. Can you just be realistic and give me something decent for once?
“F**king sh*t, we get two for a game,” he added, referring to the number of toilet breaks allowed in five setters. “Do you want me to p*ss on the track?
“Is that what you want?”
Kokkinakis eventually lost in four sets to Russia’s Karen Khachanov, who overcame a 4–1 deficit in the fourth set tiebreak to close the match and advance to the fourth round.
British former player Laura Robson, now working as a pundit for Eurosport, explained why Kokkinakis may have struggled to go to the toilet and get back in time.
“You have to sprint, but the problem is big [court] Simonne-Mathieu’s bathrooms are just not as close as on Chatrier and Lenglen.
“You can see his frustration because he’s trying to get there as fast as possible, but it’s just not going to happen physically… but at least it didn’t happen on track.”