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Strong winds have marred proceedings in Melbourne, with defending champion Naomi Osaka venting her frustration in 'unusual' fashion.

A French tennis player who was rebuked at the Australian Open for asking a ballgirl to peel his banana has defended his peculiar request — saying it was OK because she had already performed the task for him earlier in the match.

Elliot Benchetrit, 21, was scolded by umpire John Blom during his qualifying match against Kazakhstan’s Dmitry Popko, afterBut the athlete claims the situation was overblown — as the girl had performed the same task for him at the beginning of the match with no objection. “At 6-5 in the final set, during the changeover, I asked the ball girl to peel the banana for me as I had put some cream on my hands in order not to sweat,” Benchetrit said, per CNN.

“But the second time the chair umpire stepped in and told me that the ball girl was not my slave and I had to peel the banana myself.”“I could not believe that the umpire said that and I find incredible how this situation got out of control on social media without people knowing what really happened on court,” he said.by the Frenchman’s request, calling the incident “rank” and “terrible”.“Asking a ball-person to do that is disgusting. I think it’s terrible.

Benchetrit won Saturday’s match despite the banana incident, then went on to lose Tuesday's first round match to Japan’s Yuichi Sugita.

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