PARIS (AP) — Four days after getting disqualified from a smaller tournament for smashing his racket against the umpire's chair during a match, Swedish tennis player Mikael Ymer was back in competition at the French Open on Sunday, bowing out in the first round.
Ymer's exit this time was far more conventional and far less dramatic: Quite simply, he was outplayed over three sets by No. 17 seed Lorenzo Musetti of Italy and lost 7-5, 6-2, 6-4 on Court 7 at Roland Garros.
Was it tough for the 56th-ranked Ymer to set aside what happened at the Lyon Open on Wednesday, when he was defaulted from the contest against French teenager Arthur Fils for an outburst late in the first set?
"It's a Grand Slam, so I have to stay present. Stay in the moment," Ymer said in a brief interview with The Associated Press. "I cannot do anything about the past."
Ymer, who is 24 and owns a victory over current No. 1 Carlos Alcaraz, was angered while playing Fils that the chair umpire would not check a line call. Ymer thought a shot from Fils landed wide and pleaded for the official to climb down out of his chair for a closer look.