Harriet Dart sorry for requesting opponent ‘put on deodorant’

Britain’s Harriet Dart has apologized for saying her opponent, France’s Lois Boisson, “smells really bad” throughout her complete defeat on the Rouen Open on Tuesday.

Throughout a second-set changeover, Dart, who misplaced 6-0, 6-3, was captured on the printed asking the umpire to inform Boisson to make use of deodorant.

“Can you ask her to put on deodorant? She smells really bad,” Dart was heard saying to the official as she struggled in opposition to the 21-year-old Frenchwoman within the first spherical.

The remark sparked a right away backlash on social media, prompting Dart to handle the incident on Instagram.

“It was a comment made in the heat of the moment and I truly regret it. It’s not the way I want to behave and I take full responsibility,” Dart wrote. “I have a lot of respect for Lois and the way she competed today. I’ll learn from this and move on.”

Boisson gave a light-hearted response to the incident. She posted a photograph on Instagram of her on courtroom with a Dove deodorant edited into the picture above her hand, tagging the corporate and writing that they “apparently need a collab.”

The victory marked a surprising upset for the 303rd-ranked Boisson, who made her first WTA Tour look of the season following harm. Dart, who’s ranked No. 62, didn’t convert any of her six break factors and dropped her serve 4 occasions.

Info from Reuters and The Related Press was used on this report.