Racket slip-up lands BA in hot water with tennis star Peers

Barclays ATP World Tour Finals - O2 Arena, London - 20/11/16 Finland's Henri Kontinen and Australia's John Peers celebrate winning the doubles against South Africa's Raven Klaasen and USA's Rajeev Ram Reuters / Toby Melville Livepic

PARIS (Reuters) - After a catastrophic computer failure that stranded 75,000 of its passengers at the weekend, British Airways must have been hoping to keep a low profile as its operations got back to normal on Monday.

So Britain's flag carrier could probably have done without parting John Peers, the top seed in the men's doubles competition at the French Open, from his tennis rackets en route to Paris.