New Delhi. As is the tradition of slapping today, during the recent Oscar ceremony, American actor Will Smith slapped anchor, actor Chris Rock and now a tennis player slaps his opponent. A video of a tennis tournament held in Ghana is going viral on social media, in which a player slaps his opponent after losing. This incident happened in a tennis tournament held in Ghana. ITF Juniors tournament players Michael Koume and Rafael NI Ankara are involved in the incident that happened on Monday. In the viral video, after the end of the match, Ankra approaches Koume to shake hands, but he slaps Ankra in the face. The audience present there started sharing the video of this incident. After which the video went viral on social media and there was a lot of controversy over it. The video footage was first shared by the Functional Tennis Podcast, which said in an Instagram post on Tuesday that the video would be removed from social media.
Number 1 seeded player Michael Kouame from France slaps Raphael Nii Ankrah after losing in the ongoing TGF ITF jnrs world tour at the Accra sports stadium pic.twitter.com/pj4WjfifXZ
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This video has been viewed more than 7.38 lakh times on Twitter. In fact, French tennis player Coumé was leading the competition, but lost the opening set to rival Ankara, but won the second set. This brought the match to a tie-break. There was a tough fight for this tie-break as well, but in the end Ankara won. The final score of this match was 6-2, 6-7, 7-6. People were stunned by this slap and a dispute started. However, it is not yet clear why Koume killed Ankara. As of now, Ankara has advanced to the second round of the match, where they will face Ghana’s Ishmael Ni Norte Dovuona. Apart from this, he will also be seen in the doubles match against David Brunetti of Italy and Michael Kouk of France.