Tennis star Ilie Nastase faces ban after insulting female players

[niyad]

(I see that age has not improved this asshole)

Tennis star Ilie Nastase faces ban after insulting female players

Great Britain's Fed Cup tie in Romania descends into chaos after Ilie Nastase tirade – video


The former tennis star Ilie Nastase, already under investigation for making a racist jibe about the colour of Serena Williams’s unborn baby, provoked further uproar on Saturday after calling Great Britain captain Anne Keothavong and player Johanna Konta “fucking bitches”. The new insult from Nastase led to him being thrown off the court, and Great Britain’s Fed Cup play-off against Romania was suspended, with Konta visibly traumatised and in tears. She later resumed and won the match.

The latest controversy to engulf the 70-year-old former world No 1 erupted after he became embroiled in a row about noise from the crowd. Nastase, who is Romania’s Fed Cup captain, now faces a lengthy ban from tennis. He was heard to say to the umpire: “What’s your fucking problem?” before hurling abuse at the British pair. He was sent from the grounds by the umpire for “serious misconduct” as Romanian No 1 Simona Halep appealed for the crowd to calm.

Hours earlier, Nastase had launched into yet another astonishing rant, this time directing his invective at a British female journalist, calling her “stupid” for reporting his apparently racist comment about Williams’s pregnancy. On Friday, Nastase was heard to say: “Let’s see what colour it has. Chocolate with milk?”

Shortly before play started, Nastase stormed into the press centre at the Tenis Club IDU in the Romanian city of Constanta to seek out the British media. At the time, only the Press Association Sport tennis correspondent Eleanor Crooks was present, and Nastase asked Crooks: “Why did you write that? You’re stupid, you’re stupid.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2017/apr/22/ilie-nastase-tennis-ban-abusive-comments-to-women

[dhill926]

1. Good...

He's a fucking asshole.

[TDale313]

2. Such an asshole.

[elleng]

3. 'She later resumed and won the match.'

BRAVO!

[demmiblue]

4. Arsehole. n/t

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

5. Agreed

He was an asshole when he played back in the 70s (yes I'm old enough to remember) and he's still an asshole.

[LisaM]

6. Oh, and this little snipped.....

In the same press conference in which his comments about Williams were picked up, Nastase made the British captain Keothavong feel uncomfortable with several inappropriate remarks. He asked for her room number as they posed together for a photo call while putting his hand tightly around her shoulders, and later said to the 33-year-old, who is married and 18 weeks pregnant with her second child: “We keep being attracted.”

After Konta’s victory, Keothavong condemned Nastase’s behaviour and said she was put in an awkward situation when he asked for her hotel room number. “What he said I am not going to repeat because it’s language that is not appropriate for anyone to speak to any other human.”

[oasis]

7. He earned the nickname "Nasty" Nastase, many year ago.

Still at it.

[niyad]

8. exactly

[cwydro]

9. Bald and fat.

I saw him play years ago. He was an ass even then.

Getting old is hard for some of these asshats.

[geek tragedy]

10. the most notorious a-hole in the open era of men's tennis,

John McEnroe's temperament, at its worst, seems like Roger Federer's compared to this guy.