Lois Boisson had the perfect response to Harriet Dart deodorant controversy

When they go low, Lois goes high!

French tennis player Lois Boisson had the perfect response to the viral moment that came out of her first-round win at the WTA 250 Open Rouen Capfinances Metropole on Tuesday, where her opponent, Great Britain's Harriet Dart, openly criticized her hygiene.

Boisson, 21, was a 6-0, 6-3 winner over Dart in the first round of the clay-court tournament in France on Wendesday, a result that ordinarily wouldn't be more than a blip on the most fans' radar. But it went viral for all the wrong reasons after it became clear that the Brit made an unkind comment about Boisson mid-match to the chair umpire.

“Can you tell her to wear deodorant?” Dart, 28, was heared asking Yamila Halle during a second-set change of ends. With the Argentinian official seemingly confused, Dart doubled down.

“Because the smell,” Dart said. “Can you tell her to wear deodorant? She smells really bad.”

Halle brushed off the comment, and it appeared that Boisson didn't hear the interaction in the moment, either. Though the match continued as normal—with Boisson winning the last two games on Rouen's indoor clay court to take the match—the clip quickly made the rounds online, and made headlines worldwide from the BBC and The Athletic to *People* magazine.

But as the chatter grew, Boisson wasn't about to let things slide with no response: She later a photo of herself from the match to her Instagram story, where a stick of Dove deodorant could be seen Photoshopped over a tennis ball in her hand.

“Apparently need a collab,” she wrote on the photo, adding a pair of laughing emojis and prayer hands. Dove's global Instagram account, with 1 million followers, reposted Boisson's story and added: "Smells like confidence."

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Boisson reached a career-high ranking of No. 152 last spring, on the back of three ITF circuit titles and her first WTA 125 title, and looked like the most promising young female talent out of France in recent years. But she tore her ACL in a match just weeks before Roland Garros was set to begin, and the tournament in Rouen is her first since then after nearly a year of rehab and recovery.

Boisson is currently ranked No. 303.

After the controversy exploded, Dart issued an apology, saying that the remark was a "heat-of-the-moment comment that I truly regret."

“That’s not how I want to carry myself, and I take full responsibility," Dart wrote. "I have a lot of respect for Lois and how she competed today. I’ll learn from this and move forward."

It remains to be seen if Dart will be penalized by the WTA for unsportsmanlike conduct.