Umpire scolds French player at Australian Open for asking ballgirl to peel banana for him

Cox Media via WPXI ^ | January 20, 2020 | Bob D'Angelo

[rightwingintelligentsia]

As far as a chair umpire at the Australian Open was concerned, it was a slip of tennis etiquette.

During a qualifying round for the Grand Slam event, Elliot Benchetrit of France was rebuked by the official when he asked a ballgirl to peel his banana, News.com.au reported.

Benchetrit, 21, was handed the banana during a break in his match against Dmitry Popko and asked the girl for help in peeling the fruit, indicating his heavily taped fingers prevented him from doing so, Nine.com.au reported.

Chair umpire John Blom interrupted and told Benchetrit to peel his own banana, according to News.com.au.

The Frenchman, No. 229 in the men’s tennis world rankings, took the banana back from the amused ballgirl and tried to peel it with his teeth, CNN reported.

[BenLurkin]

Blom told Benchetrit to peel his own banana

[Vaquero]

“Peel my bamana “. Did #metoo get upset about the wording

[Haiku Guy]

Peel the banana?

Is that what the kids are calling it, these days?

[glorgau]

Hmmm, the banana skin must have been uncut.

[Hatteras]

New hashtag? #peelmybanana

[Secret Agent Man]

I think a relatively innocent molehill of a request being blown up into a mountain by snowflakes.

[A strike]

” NO, give us Barabas “

[Red Badger]

Sometimes a banana is just a banana............. 😏

[Gay State Conservative]

Not going anywhere near *this* one!

[SunkenCiv]

There's a reason it's called a Grand Slam event, Blom.

[piasa]

Yep...culture of outrage.

[Secret Agent Man]

And its misandric as well.

Imagine the player is a female and asking a ballguy or girl to help her with the banana. There would be no outrage at all.

[EdnaMode]

That’s bananas. :D

[Hieronymus]

I believe the phrased you are looking for is “uncut around” or “not incised around” or something of that sort.

I might be able to find the word that you are looking for—remind me in a little over a week.

[Sans-Culotte]

"Peel his banana".

[Karma_Sherab]

Who eats a banana horizontally???

[Boogieman]

Unless the female was one of the Williams sisters, and then the outrage would be that giving them a banana was racist.

[CopperTop]

This thread is indeterminate without pics of “The Ballgirl”... d;^)

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes. A real first world problem.