Aryna Sabalenka challenges Iga Arywi Wytek: “Cheater, you should be excluded from tennis forever! The Polish Monkey ! Dumb ass! “

Mr Banciu was fined £1,484 on the grounds of discrimination and a violation of the rights to dignity, according to the board of directors for the National Council for Combating Discrimination, Bucharest, Romania. However it does not appear that Mr Banciu will lose his job following the comments.

The directors added: ‘The governing board shows that slavery of people of colour was based, among other things, on their comparison with monkeys. As a result, such statements express a form of extreme racism.’