Probably not the smoothest way to handle a defeat - slap a rival on the net to launch the courtside brawl!?

Just when we thought we'd seen it all, a juvenile tennis tournament in Ghana provided us with some unprecedented boxing scenes. Or something similar.

The one to blame is young Frenchman Michael Kouame, the first seed at the ITF junior tournament in Accra, who acted in a most disrespectful way towards his opponent, the home player Raphael Nii Ankrah.

After a surprising upset in three sets, 1-2 (6:2, 6:7, 7:6), both players approached the net to shake hands. But all of a sudden, things went terribly wrong to shock the entire crowd, let alone Nii Ankrah.

Kouame couldn't handle the disappointing tournament exit and slapped his rival!

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While greeting the Ghanian player with his right hand, he slapped him with his left.

However, the incident did not end there.

Kouame engaged in an even fiercer conflict only a few minutes later, as members of the two teams joined, and some fans from the stands, too.