At the Eastbourne Open earlier this year, Alejandro Davidovich Fokina ’s temper once again lit up the court during his fiery win over Jakub Mensik. The Spaniard, chasing a semifinal berth, had just gone 5-4 down in the second set when he smashed his racket to the floor, earning a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct. Furious over what he saw as injustice, he snapped, “I don’t accept that warning,” arguing heatedly that he’d thrown his racket outside the baseline. The crowd watched in uneasy silence as his anger flared, a familiar blaze for one of tennis’s most volatile talents. And now, that same storm has struck again at the Paris Masters against home favorite Arthur Cazaux .

Alejandro Davidovich Fokina turned the Paris Masters into a cauldron of noise and emotion on

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