Look, we’ve all had those moments where technology just doesn’t cooperate and we want to throw our phones across the room. But Alexander Bublik? He actually did it—except with a tennis racket, and in front of thousands of people at the Paris Masters semifinals.

When Frustration Meets Composite Materials

During his semifinal match against Felix Auger-Aliassime , Bublik found himself in that special kind of tennis hell where everything that could go wrong, did. After losing a tight first set in a tiebreaker (7-6), the Kazakh managed to break serve early in the second, going up 2-0. Victory seemed within reach. Then reality came crashing down—along with his racket.

He promptly got broken right back, and that’s when the fireworks started. Bublik unleashed his inner rage demon, repeatedl

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