PARIS (AP) — British tennis player Harriet Dart has apologized after asking the chair umpire to tell her opponent to put on deodorant because “smells really bad.”
Dart lost 6-0, 6-3 to French player Lois Boisson in the first round of the clay-court Rouen Open, and was picked up by a microphone during a changeover telling the umpire: “Can you tell her (Boisson) to wear deodorant? ... Because she smells really bad.”
After the footage spread on social media, Dart posted an apology on Instagram and said "it was a heat-of-the-moment comment that I truly regret.”
“That’s not how I want to carry myself, and I take full responsibility," she wrote.