Paris, July 10: French tennis player Mathieu Montcourt died of a heart attack according to the player’s PR agency.
The 24-year-old Montcourt was found collapsed just outside his Paris apartment by his girlfriend overnight on Monday. Montcourt, ranked 119, had an autopsy on Wednesday.
In a statement on Thursday, Montcourt’s communications agency Carre Final said: “the autopsy, having revealed a heart attack as the cause of death, was followed by toxicological tests that turned out to be negative”.
—Agencies