Hugo Gaston was fined 72,000 euros for trying to cheat at the Masters 1000 in Madrid. The Frenchman deliberately dropped the ball from his pocket on a smash from the Croatian in order to replay the point. An attempt at cheating severely reprimanded. Too hard, even according to Benoît Paire who knows a lot about warnings and penalties on the courts. “It’s ridiculous that we take Hugo Gaston 144,000 dollars, even if it has been reduced to 72,000 dollars. To me, that’s ridiculous. There are even Challengers players, we take that from them, in which case they stop their career for simply… when he took maybe $2,000 from the tournament. There, it was in Madrid, he takes a little more money, but he takes 16,000 dollars and he ends up giving 144,000. I have a hard time understanding this system, why they are doing this. You have to do what you earn. We cannot take more money than the player will win. Otherwise, what’s the point of playing tennis? All he’s won since the start of the year, I’ve seen is prize money, it’s less than his fine for a bullet. It is sure that his gesture, it is not good. He knows very well that his gesture is not good. Well, that’s how it is. In matches, sometimes we have bad reactions. I find it simply stupid and a pity to impose such large fines”, commented the Avignonnais who had a little word of humor on the subject by way of conclusion: “So for me, that’s good, this year, I don’t didn’t take many warnings. So I would have paid dearly. I pay attention. I make a mistake. It’s just a pity.”
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