Roberto Carballes Baena challenges Cameron Norrie's 'Vamos!' celebration after Metz match

Why he say 'Vamos!'? Brit Cameron Norrie found himself at the center of a vocab-troversy on Monday at the Moselle Open, as beaten opponent Roberto Carballes Baena took umbradge with the Brit's choice of celebratory exclamation.

The former Top 10 player, who recently returned after three months on the sidelines with injury, needed to work hard to earn his first tour-level win since July over the 56th-ranked Spaniard, rallying from a set down to take a 3-6, 6-3, 6-4 victory in the first round of the ATP 250 event. But Carballes Baena wasn't quite ready to let the match die as the two shook hands, and confronted Norrie about his repeated use of the Spanish celebration "Vamos!" throughout the match.

"You say 'Vamos!' all the time, looking right in my face," the Spaniard could be heard saying after they parted, walking across to Norrie's bench. He could also be heard saying, "You don't need to do that."

An incredulous Norrie—who has worked with an Argentinian coach, Facundo Lugones, since they were teammates at Texas Christian University—seemed taken aback by the accusation, and instead took a swipe at his own play. The Brit entered Metz ranked No. 57, his lowest ranking in three years.

"A couple of 'vamoses' and you get pissed off? ... I'm playing so bad, so I had to fire myself up," the Brit replied, as chair umpire Manuel Absolu stepped in to keep the situation from escalating further.

Watch the post-match scene unfold in full below.

The interaction between the two players recalled memories of a similarly spicy moment between Alizé Cornet and Sara Errani more than a decade ago at the 2013 Rogers Cup in Canada, when the Italian admonished the Frenchwoman mid-match for cheering in Spanish rather than her native French.

"Why you say 'Vamos'? Say 'Allez!'," the Italian famously jawed across the net, in a fleeting moment that spawned memes heard 'round the internet. Post-match there, the Italian piled on, saying that Cornet's patented histrionics weren't a "good thing for our sport."

"Sometimes she do this, and I just want to try to stay focus and not thinking about her," Errani said, "but sometimes it's tough because is really near match, a lot of tension."

While Norrie's post-match comments echoed similar themes of tension, he repeated the refrain that his celebrations were not a slight to his opponent.

"I was trying to get fired up ... but I stopped doing it and I started playing better," Norrie said. "He's a great competitor, and he fought really hard today. I managed to get a little bit lucky in the third set ... and it was nice to get over the line in the end."

Up next for the Brit is a date with No. 3 seed Grigor Dimitrov, who will be the first alternate for the season-ending ATP Finals in Turin.