Australian organisers for the new tennis team championship were left red-faced on Friday by playing the wrong national anthem for a player from Moldova, a small landlocked country in Eastern Europe. The embarrassing gaffe occurred ahead of the opening singles tie in Sydney of the ATP Cup between Moldova’s Alexander Cozbinov and Belgium’s Steve Darcis. “At the start of the Moldova v Belgium match we mistakenly played the wrong national anthem for Moldova,” the ATP admitted. “We are sincerely sorry and have apologised personally to Team Moldova.” Tournament officials told AFP the Romanian anthem was played instead.
