Insolite - Paire is humiliated as a challenger, but smiles about it!
What's Benoit Paire up to?
After a disastrous season, the Frenchman was hoping to bounce back at the Rennes Challenger.
Unfortunately, the opposite was true.
Faced with Jacob Fearnley, ranked 164th in the world, he lost in just 37 minutes (6-1, 6-0).
Despite the rout, Paire preferred to smile about it, blowing kisses to the crowd and ironizing his defeat on social networks.
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