Banana incident at the 2020 Australian Open

On 19 January 2020, while competing in the qualifiers for the 2020 Australian Open, 21-year-old Benchetrit asked a teenage ball girl to get him a banana. Upon being handed the banana, Benchetrit told the ball girl “I can't do it,” indicating that he himself was unable to peel the banana due to his fingers being "heavily taped" due to blisters (or "heavily bandaged" as some outlets reported), and him having put cream on his hands in order not to sweat, and requested that she peel it for him.^[4][5][6] The chair umpire intervened, ordering Benchetrit to peel the banana himself, and, according to Benchetrit, telling him that the ball girl "was not his slave."^[7][6] Benchetrit went on to defeat his opponent and qualify for the main tournament, where he lost in the first round.^[8] The incident triggered debate on social media and within the ranks of tennis about the role of ball girls and ball boys.^[9] Benchetrit later expressed his disbelief at the umpire's statement to him, and the social media response "without people knowing what really happened".^[6]

Singles: 8 (5–3)

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Result	W–L	Date	Tournament	Tier	Surface	Opponent	Score
Loss	0–1	Jun 2017	Tunisia F21, Hammamet	Futures	Clay	Cristian Rodríguez	5–7, 4–6
Loss	0–2	Jul 2017	Morocco F2, Mohammedia	Futures	Clay	Carlos Boluda-Purkiss	0–6, 4–6
Win	1–2	Sep 2017	Tunisia F25, Hammamet	Futures	Clay	Rudolf Molleker	6–4, 2–0 Ret.
Win	2–2	Sep 2017	Tunisia F26, Hammamet	Futures	Clay	Luca Giacomini	6–4, 6–2
Win	3–2	Feb 2018	Tunisia F6, Djerba	Futures	Hard	Matteo Martineau	6–3, 6–2
Win	4–2	Sep 2022	M25, Sintra	ITF World Tennis Tour	Hard	Jesper de Jong	6–4, 6–1
Win	5–2	Jan 2023	M25, Doha	ITF World Tennis Tour	Hard	Bogdan Bobrov	6–4, 6–3
Loss	5–3	May 2023	M15, Kuršumlijska Banja	ITF World Tennis Tour	Clay	Marko Topo	3–6, 4–6

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Doubles: 5 (3–2)

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Outcome	No.	Date	Tournament	Surface	Partner	Opponents	Score
Winner	1.	5 August 2017	Casablanca, Morocco F3	Clay	Maxime Hamou	Nick Chappell Skander Mansouri	7–6(7–4), 6–7(2–7), [10–5]
Winner	2.	10 September 2017	Hammamet, Tunisia F25	Clay	Rudolf Molleker	Aziz Dougaz Anis Ghorbel	7–5, 6–3
Runner-up	1.	17 September 2017	Hammamet, Tunisia F26	Clay	Louis Wessels	Filippo Baldi Mirko Cutuli	4–6, 4–6
Winner	3.	17 June 2018	Lyon, France	Clay	Geoffrey Blancaneaux	Hsieh Cheng-peng Luca Margaroli	6–3, 4–6, [10–7]
Runner-up	2.	22 August 2020	Todi, Italy	Clay	Hugo Gaston	Ariel Behar Andrey Golubev	4–6, 2–6

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