The new tennis tournament ATP Cup, with the participation of 24 male national team was on the night of Friday, shot in Australia with an embarrassing gaffe.
Prior to a match between the Moldovan Alexander Cozbinov and Belgium's Steve Darcis played the organizers the wrong anthem.
instead of the Moldova lies below it was the sound of Romania's anthem, which sounded out over the public address system in Sydney. ATP came afterwards with an unreserved apology.
- We are sincerely sorry and have apologized to the Team of Moldova, saith the ATP.
Alexander Cozbinov took the error quietly, he after the match put the words on it.
It was no great matter, that they played the wrong song. But it should not be so hard to find the right one.
- the republic of Moldova and Romania have the same flag so maybe that's why that they made a mistake. Hopefully they choose the right the next time, says Alexander Cozbinov, who lost the match in three sets.
the republic of Moldova and the Romanian flag is apart from a coat of arms in Moldova's flag identical.
the ATP Cup is a new tournament with 24 participating nations, divided into six different groups. Matches are to be played in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane from 3. 12. January.
When the countries meet each other, play the two singlekampe and a single duel in the doubles. The winner of each group plus the two best twos go on to the quarter-finals.
The total prize money in ATP Cup is on a 15 million dollar equivalent of 100 million crowns.
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