Tennis star Lorenzo Musetti has apologized to Chinese fans after an on-court outburst in Beijing sparked outrage. The Italian world No. 9 was annoyed by coughing in the crowd during his round-of-32 match against France’s Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard at the China Open on Friday. In the second-set tie-break, Musetti lost a point to the Frenchman before shouting “these (expletive) Chinese are always coughing,” appearing to gesture to the crowd and pointing to his throat.

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