try to destroy the racket on the grass, the result is comical

Daniil Medvedev he exits the Halle tournament almost immediately. The Russian tennis player, who was on a collision course with Jannik Sinner, was eliminated in the second round by the Chinese Zhang and as soon as the match ended he became furious and threw his racket at least three times onto the German grass, before greeting his opponent and storming off the court. And the racket couldn’t break it.

Zhang surprisingly eliminates Medvedev in Halle

Medvedev doesn’t particularly like clay or grass, despite having achieved excellent results on both surfaces. But in this 2024 he has gradually declined. In Halle he was the number 3 seed and was favored against Zhang, who instead played a quality match. The Chinese wins the first set 6-4 and takes the lead. The Russian recovers, wins the second 6-1 and is always ahead in the third, which it is decided in the tie-break.

The experience of the former ATP number 1 seems to prevail. Medvedev flies to 4-1, but from then on there is only the Chinese player on the pitch who wins six points out of seven and qualifies for the quarterfinals, which will play against Eubanks, who eliminated the defending champion Bublik. Zhang achieves the most prestigious victory of his career. For the Russian it is another defeat, which also came in a bad way, considering that he was ahead in the tie-break.

Medvedev’s rackets on the grass after the knockout with Zhang

And when he physically loses the match, Medvedev gets angry and does it in a canonical way for him by throwing the racket more than once on the court in Halle, one shot, then another and another. The Russian approaches the net, greets his opponent and compliments him, but he is furious, even if the racket did not destroy him. A bad setback ahead of Wimbledon.