A French tennis player who was reprimanded by an umpire after he asked a ball girl to peel a banana for him has spoken out after the exchange went viral on Twitter. Elliot Benchetrit, 21, was competing against Kazakhstan's Dmitry Popko at the Australian Open on Saturday when he asked the girl, whose identity remains unknown, to peel the snack for him to eat. Before the girl could complete the task, umpire John Blom reportedly called out to Benchetrit, telling him that "the ball girl was not my slave and I had to peel the banana myself," CNN reports.