The usual Daniil Medvedev. The Russian player continues to provide truly hilarious performances during his matches on clay: after Monte-Carlo, the Moscow native was no exception in Madrid too and, in the day’s match against Sebastian Korda, he began to take it out on the chair umpire when some rain began to fall on the Arantxa Sanchez Stadium.
At that point the 28-year-old asked the referee what he expected to activate the mechanism to quickly close the roof. The judge justified himself by explaining to Medvedev that the decision is not his responsibility.
Daniil responded like this: “And who is responsible for deciding whether to close the roof for the rain? The enlightened ones?”. Here is the video that immediately circulated on social media.
Despite these small controversies and the difficulties encountered, the Muscovite achieved access to the round of 16 by beating the American from behind: “It was tough for many different reasons.
He played well. The courts here, except the center one, are a little smaller than I would like, so I play as if someone is pushing me in the back. Although when I serve I don’t need that much space. But the feeling is as if I’m being pushed backwards.
I need to get used to trying to find the right solution to the problem. I have to find the rhythm but in both games I played better and better. Certainly the next one, if you face increasingly stronger opponents, I want to start it at the level of how I started the third set” he revealed to the ATP Tour.
