Chair Umpire Mohamed Lahyani is currently officiating at the Australian Open
Mohamed Lahyani’s Hitler-like moustache seems to be the talk of the town on social media after the chair umpire was seen in his new appearance during the Australian Open encounter between Andy Murray and Matteo Berrettini. Murray and Berrettini played out a thrilling five-setter, with the British star eventually coming out on top. Despite the many talking points throughout the match, it is Lahyani’s moustache which seems to have captured the imagination of fans on social media.
Lahyani’s look resembled that of Adolf Hitler – at least that’s what fans feel. The Swedish national is a Gold-badge chair umpire and he will certainly be officiating more matches at the ongoing Australian Open. Lahyani is a great asset to Tennis and he was probably not fully aware of how his look would be perceived by the public. Fans will be eagerly waiting to see if Lahyani decides to get rid of his Hitler-like moustache after the backlash on Twitter or has he got no such plans?
Let us take a look at how fans on Twitter reacted to Lahyani’s new look.
“We love it, because he’s a total sweetheart – met him at Wimbledon, he signed our programme so happily with smily face pic and was amazed we wanted a photo with him. He made us feel like we’d made his day, just a lovely man”, wrote a fan.
“Looks great imo. It’d be great if this helps remove stigma attached to the cut”, commented another fan.
“It’d be fine if he grew the rest of the goatee out just a little. Instead, it does look like that Austrian painter”, read another comment.
“The man is going for a beardstache, we call it a “lock”, not sure what it’s called in English. but the stache is just way ahead of the beard”, explained another fan.
Another fan joked: “Always knew umpires were nazis.”
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