SHANGHAI (Reuters) -World number nine Lorenzo Musetti pleaded with the chair umpire to ask spectators to stop coughing in between his serves at the Shanghai Masters on Wednesday, days after the Italian issued an apology for complaining about fans’ behaviour in Beijing.

Musetti courted controversy during last month’s China Open clash with Frenchman Giovanni Mpetshi Perricard when he ranted that Chinese fans were “always coughing”.

The latest incident took place during Musetti’s fourth-round meeting with Felix Auger-Aliassime in Shanghai when some fans were heard coughing loudly and seemingly deliberately when the Italian served in the second set.

“Come on, (it happens on) every point,” 23-year-old Musetti told umpire Adel Nour after dropping his serve to go 2-5 down.

“I understand a few

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