Pablo Cuevas threatened to pee in a ball can during Wimbledon

This strange and hilarious series of events happened during Wimbledon on Monday.

Tennis in general and Wimbledon in specific is supposed to ooze sophistication and class. That’s what makes this story about Pablo Cuevas and Marcel Granollers especially hilarious.

The doubles pair lost on Monday, but not without making the biggest of scenes before they exited the tournament.

According to BBC, the pair suffered their first code violation when Cuevas was refused a toilet break. Cuevas threatened to relieve himself into a ball can if not allowed to use the restroom. Frustrated, Cuevas smashed a ball out of the court during a double fault play, resulting in Cuevas and Granollers being docked a point. The duo benched themselves, refusing to play in their final match. A supervisor had to be called in order to return the match to normalcy, and out of the fifth grade classroom in which it was apparently held.

The scene of a professional tennis player threatening to relieve himself into a ball can at Wimbledon belongs in a Will Ferrell parody movie, not in real live. If I had read this on a personal blog and not the BBC, I honestly would have dismissed it as complete fiction.

These are two professionals in a professional environment refusing to do their jobs because one of them was not allowed to use the restroom. That alone is hilarious, but the frustration smash and self-benching is where this story achieves self-parody. All in all, it’s arguably my favorite tennis story ever.

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