Tommy Paul was happy to win his first-round match at the French Open on Sunday, but he was probably even more excited to talk about getting back the truck that was taken from him in Florida after he missed some payments by mistake.
The 12th-seeded Paul continued his strong clay-court play at Roland-Garros by beating Elmer Moller of Denmark 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 on Court Simonne-Mathieu. The weather during the match changed between light rain, strong wind, and sunshine.
After the match, the 2023 Australian Open semifinalist explained that his troubles with the truck happened while he was reaching the semifinals at the Italian Open earlier this month. The problem was caused by switching banks and forgetting to update the automatic payments for his Ford F-150.
“I missed, I think it was, like three payments. They came and took it. I didn’t know it happened like that. I didn’t know how quick they would come and grab it — like in the middle of the night,” Paul said. “Now I’m watching all these ‘repo’ shows, where they come in and swoop trucks at 1 in the morning. It’s definitely a funny experience. To be in Europe while it happened is even crazier. But we did get it back.”
Tommy Paul reacts in the gameHe realized the truck was gone when his trainer, who was in Florida, asked Paul to check security camera footage to see if any packages had arrived that needed to be picked up.
To Paul’s surprise, he said on Sunday, “There were no packages — and no truck.”
When he looked through the video, the 28-year-old American, who grew up in New Jersey, saw what happened.
“I’m like, ‘What the hell is going on? There’s a tow truck coming and taking my car!’ I thought it was stolen at first,” he said.
After he figured out what happened, Paul shared the black-and-white video of his truck being taken from his driveway on social media, adding a soundtrack of Celine Dion’s “My Heart Will Go On.”
