(VIDEO) "Who are you?" - Clara Tauson confronts spectator during Rome Open defeat as chair umpire forced to intervene

Clara Tauson was defeated on Monday at the Rome Open but got embroiled in a row with a spectator who kept trying to put her off it seemed as she was defeated 7-5, 3-6, 2-6 by Mirra Andreeva with the Dane falling apart after an initial superb opener.

In the third game at 1-2 in the third, a fan sitting directly behind her deliberately made a sound breaking her rhythm and forcing her to commit a double fault on serve. Obviously perturbed by this, she reset and snapped when it happened again.

She turned and faced the spectator walking up to him and asking: "Who are you?". The fan offered no apology and just gave her a thumbs-up. Tauson went straight up to the chair umpire. "He's intentionally making noises to disturb my serve," she said.

But the umpire instead tried to diffuse the situation. “Don't tell him anything," the chair umpire told her. "I can’t tell him anything about the double fault that was made, I will shut them down. Don't go against them. If you go against them, you will make war. Let me report them."

She glanced towards him again as she fired an ace next point. She couldn't seem to shake it off though as she was beaten by the Russian 6-2 in the third from that 2-1.