Milos Raonic upset fans at the Paris Masters by refusing to use a toilet without a seat during his comfort break – causing an eight-minute delay to his second-round match.
Raonic’s American opponent Jack Sock had levelled the match by winning the second set before Raonic’s break, the length of which prompted the Bercy crowd to boo the Canadian when he returned to court.
The N07 seed, who won 6-3, 5-7, 7-6, said: “Whoever the escort who took me was, took me into a bathroom that had no seats on the toilet. So I didn’t want to squat, so I kept saying, ‘let’s go to another one’, and we ended up going to the locker room.”
Raonic still has a chance of qualifying for next month’s ATP World Tour finals in London, for which four spots are up for grabs in Paris.
