The underarm serve and its legitimacy continues to be a divisive issue in tennis, but on Tuesday in French Open qualifying, tennis fans were again treated to its even stranger cousin.Step forward Zsombor Piros, the world No. 175 from Hungary, who once more used his bizarre serving tactic to outfox an opponent. First seen by the wider tennis public in a Davis Cup tie against Austria in September, Piros used the serve at an arguably bigger moment, down set point in the first set of his first-round qualifying match against Portugal’s Henrique Rocha.The serve sees Piros barely throw the ball into the air, before patting it over the net to his unsuspecting opponent. As against Lukas Neumayer in that Davis Cup tie, Rocha was completely outfoxed, and the serve bounced twice for an ace.Piros appeared perilously close to committing a foot fault, which happens when a player touches the baseline or jumps into the court before striking the ball, but it was not called against him.
Le service Piros sur balle de set.
Le fait que ce soit un ace.
Le fait que Piros s’excuse de honte après avoir fait ça.
C’est déjà la première pépite de RG
