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‘You cannot BEE serious!’.
Tennis star Stefanos Tsitsipas couldn’t ‘bee-lieve’ what he was hearing at a match in Ohio, when he protested to the umpire that a fan was imitating a bee behind him as he attempted to serve.
The world No.4-ranked men’s player initially tried to swipe away what he thought was a bee buzzing around his head.
He then made a bee-line to the umpire, saying: “There’s a person imitating a bee behind me. It’s a buzz right before I serve.
“Do you think that’s OK?” he asked.
The umpire said he would sort the matter, but the Greek star sought to fix the mis-bee-haviour by himself, asking the crowd who was making the noise – with one spectator clearly happy to point out the alleged buzzkill, a woman in the front row.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas was bothered by a spectator impersonating a bee during the Cincinnati Masters.
“It has never happened in my career. I know they’re supporting the [other player],” Tsitsipas told the umpire.
His US opponent Ben Shelton came to the net and said: “What’s happened? Are they speaking to you?”. Tsitsipas replied: “No, they’re imitating a bee, they’re buzzing ‘bzzz’.”
“It’s the lady over there. I want her out. She needs to go,” he demanded of the bee-mused umpire.
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Stefanos Tsitsipas tries to find the fan who was impersonating a bee – with the help of the bloke in the second row.
The woman appeared to apologise to Tsitsipas when he returned to serve.
It’s possible she was a fan of the song Bloodbuzz Ohio by The National, which features the line: “I was carried/to Ohio in a swarm of bees”.
Tsitsipas recovered from his bee-wilderment to beat Shelton to advance to the last 16 of the Cincinnati Masters.
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