Richard Gasquet got distracted big time during his match at Roland Garros

Richard Gasquet got distracted big time during his match at Roland Garros versus Carlos Berlocq of Argentina on Thursday.

A unique sort of incident happened as the flying camera which was taking the shots of the match from up and over somehow got in contact with a bird which was passing the court and smashed its feathers.

It created real chaos out there.

Gasquet actually misread the situation a little bit. He initially thought he was being attacked by the group of birds, but, later, he understood everything.

The Frenchman was, however, still looking frightened even in the post match press conference.

Speaking to the reporters, he said, “It was really a weird thing. There were feathers everywhere, nobody could figure out what was going on. The crowd was stunned.”

“I went to one of the officials to ask. I hadn’t seen something of this type ever in my life. So, I was shaken.”

“These birds tend to attack too at times. So, I had that thing in my mind when I saw it in the first look.”

The good thing, however, was that the incident did not result in the death of the bird.

The bird, which was a pigeon perhaps, got freed from the camera somehow and flew away.

When told about that, Gasquet took a sigh of relief.

“It’s quite unbelievable. I thought the bird was gone, dead.” said the world no. 21.

As far as the result of the match is concerned, it went in Gasquet’s favour.

It was a marathon though with Gasquet losing the first and the fourth set, but, he brought out his ‘A’ game when it mattered i.e. at the end.

The 28-year old handed his opponent an absolute demolition in the decider and moved forward in the tournament.