Tennis, everyone noticed right away and in no time the “bomb” exploded on social networks: the post went viral.
Sometimes it’s the excessive rain, sometimes it’s the wind. But it can also happen, although fortunately only in exceptional cases, that the court is impassable and therefore cannot host a tennis match. The fact remains, whatever the reason, that it is not uncommon for matches to be suddenly suspended.
Only perhaps never before had a chair judge been forced to send players to the locker room because of, hear hear, a swarm of bees invading the court. Images of what happened in the middle of the face-off between Carlos Alcaraz and Sascha Zverev have now gone around the world, if only because of the scare that everyone, legitimately, got. The bees wandered undisturbed from one side of the court to the other and then gathered around the camera of one of the cameramen who was filming the encounter to televise it live.
At that point, although the intervention took an appropriately long enough time, a “hero” arrived on the court in Indian Wells to “save” the tennis players and the audience from this unexpected invasion. And many at that very moment noticed that the man in question looked like someone, well known to us, undercover.
Tennis, he’s right: the resemblance is incredible
To point out the incredible resemblance to the people on social media was Paolo Bertolucci, who when there is something to make fun of his close friend and colleague Adriano Panatta never backs down. And he was the unwitting “victim” of the post that went viral in no time
The hunter pic.twitter.com/iOzsgNR4u5
– paolo bertolucci (@paolobertolucci) March 15, 2024
It must be admitted, indeed, that Bertolucci is right. The hero of Indian Wells, who fought bees with bare hands and no protection, serving only the nozzle of a vacuum cleaner, bears a striking resemblance to the former Roman tennis player. Same long hair, same shade, a purely similar physicality et voila, the mockery is served.
“Is it just me or…?” wrote Paul on X, accompanying a collage in which he compared the California bee hunter with his inseparable friend and companion. The comments at the bottom of his post, as easily guessed, were wasted. So did the laughter, which in the face of such a message was inevitable.