Article by Romeo Ene – published on Saturday, August 16, 2025, 22:13 / Updated on Saturday, August 16, 2025 22:13
American Reilly Opelka (27 years old, 73 ATP) was fined at the Indian Wells tournament, after insulting the referee who allowed Francisco Comesana (24 years old, 71 ATP), to his opponent, to go to the toilet between sets, according to abola.pt.
Reilly Opelka has learned the amount to pay after the Indian Wells gesture, and this is not small at all.
The non -conformist tennis player, accustomed to the fines received from the ATP, published the documents accompanied by the following question: “Can I at least choose the charitable organization to which the money will be donated?”
Reilly Opelka's message after the fine received
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Francisco Comesana defeated in three sets on Opelka, score 6-7, 6-4, 7-5, after 2 hours and 56 minutes.
24,000 euros fine for Reilly Opelka
American has been fined with 24,000 euros Because he called the “idiot” on the referee of the match, not assigning his anger when Comesana took a break to go to the toilet between sets.
“How many breaks will this guy take? Last time I took such a long break, I was fined 150,000 dollars”, Opelka reproached the chair referee.
Opelka's tense relationship with the regulations is not new at all. In 2021 he received a fine of $ 10,000 at the US Open, after entering the field with a pink bag on which a logo was considered “too big” of an art gallery in which he later began to invest.
This year, even after winning the Dallas ATP tournament, he was sanctioned again because he did not take his chapter at the awards ceremony.
This time, the value of the fine was not made public, unlike the $ 5,000 paid for each warning received in the match with Cameron Norrie, in the finals.
Then, Opelka stopped in the middle of the game, at the score of 30-30, to talk to a spectator, asking if he intentionally coughing and asking them to leave, in an access of anger sprinkled with insults.
