Tommy Paul wins at French Open after truck repossessed due to missed payments | French Open

Tommy Paul was pleased to come back to win his first-round match at the French Open on Sunday, but perhaps not as thrilled as he was to discuss regaining the truck he lost when he accidentally missed some payments.

The 12th-seeded Paul eliminated Elmer Moller of Denmark 6-7, 6-2, 6-3, 6-1 at Court Simonne-Mathieu on a day that alternated a light rain and heavy wind with sunshine.

Afterward, Paul explained that his truck was repossessed earlier this month when he changed banks and forgot to properly adjust 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, who has career earning of $10.8m, said. “Now I’m watching all these ‘repo’ shows, where they come in and swoop trucks at one 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.”

He found out that the truck was gone when his trainer – who was back in Florida – asked Paul to check his security camera footage to see whether there were any packages that needed to be picked up.

To Paul’s surprise, he said “There were no packages – and no truck.”

When he scrolled back through the video, the American saw what had 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.

When he figured out what had happened, Paul posted the black-and-white footage of his truck being towed away, adding a soundtrack of Celine Dion’s My Heart Will Go On.