{"id":24093,"date":"2025-09-27T10:36:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:36:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/lorenzo-musetti-apologises-for-explosion-for-coughing-chinese-fans\/"},"modified":"2025-09-27T10:36:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T14:36:06","slug":"lorenzo-musetti-apologises-for-explosion-for-coughing-chinese-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/09\/27\/lorenzo-musetti-apologises-for-explosion-for-coughing-chinese-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorenzo Musetti apologises for explosion for coughing Chinese fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Lorenzo Musetti has become the latest tennis star to apologise to Chinese fans.<\/p>\n<p>Musetti was troubled by coughing in the crowd when he won the Giovanni Mpetosi or a round of crowds at Beijing&#8217;s China Open on Friday. He imitated someone who cleans his throat after the point and said in Italian, &#8220;They cough every three seconds.&#8221; Local media also accused him of talking about &#8220;damn Chinese.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to sincerely apologize for what I said in frustration during yesterday&#8217;s match,&#8221; Mumetti wrote on Instagram. &#8220;My words were directed only to a small number of individuals in the crowd who were coughing repeatedly and hindering the play. They never meant the Chinese people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I realized that the way I expressed myself was wrong and inappropriate, and hurting the emotions of many Chinese fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Musetti&#8217;s explosion has prompted a surge in anger over social media, commenting on one of his previous Instagram posts, accusing him of being racist, along with shaming and slandering Italian culture.<\/p>\n<p>American tennis star Taylor Townsend apologized on September 17 for making a light-paid comment about Chinese food before the US played Kazakhstan at the Billy Junking Cup Finals held at China&#8217;s Shenzhen.<\/p>\n<p>Townsend had to post videos of local cuisine such as Bullfrog and Purtles, joke around and &#8220;talking to HR&#8221; about the quality of the food. She once again apologized to Instagram after facing backlash online, saying, &#8220;Everyone was so kind and very kind.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorenzo Musetti has become the latest tennis star to apologise to Chinese fans. Musetti was troubled by coughing in the crowd when he won the Giovanni Mpetosi or a round of crowds at Beijing&#8217;s China Open on Friday. He imitated someone who cleans his throat after the point and said in Italian, &#8220;They cough every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2658,6316,6416,2826,598,281,1809,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-24093","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-apologises","9":"tag-chinese","10":"tag-coughing","11":"tag-explosion","12":"tag-fans","13":"tag-lorenzo","14":"tag-musetti","15":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}