Tommy Paul of the U.S. serves against Denmark’s Elmer Moller, during their first round match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, Sunday May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Tommy Paul of the U.S. reacts as he plays Denmark’s Elmer Moller during their first round match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, Sunday May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
Tommy Paul keeps on truckin’ at French Open after getting his repossessed vehicle back
PARIS (AP) 鈥 Tommy Paul was pleased to come back to win his first-round match at the French Open on Sunday, of course, but perhaps not as thrilled as he was to discuss regaining the truck that was repossessed back home in Florida when he accidentally missed some payments.
Tommy Paul of the U.S. serves against Denmark’s Elmer Moller, during their first round match of the French Tennis Open at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris, Sunday May 25, 2025. (AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson)
PARIS (AP) 鈥 Tommy Paul was pleased to come back to win his first-round match at the French Open on Sunday, of course, but perhaps not as thrilled as he was to discuss regaining the truck that was repossessed back home in Florida when he accidentally missed some payments.
The 12th-seeded Paul kept on truckin’ with his clay-court results by eliminating Elmer Moller of Denmark 6-7 (5), 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 at Court Simonne-Mathieu on a day that alternated a light rain and heavy wind with sunshine.
Afterward, explained that his vehicular adventures that arose while he was reaching the semifinals at the Italian Open earlier this month resulted from changing banks and forgetting to properly adjust the automatic payments for his Ford F-150.
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鈥淚 missed, I think it was, like three payments. They came and took it. I didn鈥檛 know it happened like that. I didn鈥檛 know how quick they would come and grab it 鈥 like in the middle of the night,鈥 Paul said. 鈥淣ow I鈥檓 watching all these 鈥榬epo鈥 shows, where they come in and swoop trucks at 1 in the morning. It鈥檚 definitely a funny experience. To be in Europe while it happened is even crazier. But we did get it back.鈥
He found out that the truck was gone when his trainer 鈥 who was back in Florida 鈥 asked Paul to check his security camera footage to see whether there were any packages that had been delivered to the house and needed to be picked up.
To Paul’s surprise, he recounted Sunday, 鈥淭here were no packages 鈥 and no truck.鈥
When he scrolled back through the video, the 28-year-old American who grew up in New Jersey saw what happened.
鈥淚鈥檓 like, 鈥榃hat the hell is going on? There鈥檚 a tow truck coming and taking my car!’ I thought it was stolen at first,鈥 he said.
When he figured it out, Paul took to social media and posted the black-and-white footage of his property being towed away from his driveway, adding a soundtrack of Celine Dion’s 鈥淢y Heart Will Go On.鈥
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Howard Fendrich has been the AP鈥檚 tennis writer since 2002. Find his stories here: . More AP tennis:
