MONACO — Former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev misplaced his mood, smashed his racket on the purple clay court docket seven successive instances and deposited the mangled body in a trash bin halfway by means of a 6-0, 6-0 loss to Matteo Berrettini on the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
Medvedev, who’s at present ranked tenth, obtained a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct and can probably be hit with a hefty superb for his actions early within the second set.
He was already struggling when he landed a forehand within the web to drop his opening service recreation of the second set and fall behind 2-0, and he slammed his racket close to the baseline. Then he picked the racket up and threw it towards a tarp on the finish of the court docket.
Still not by means of, Medvedev frequently picked his racket body up and stored on smashing it till it was destroyed sufficient to match by means of a gap in a courtside trash can as the gang sarcastically cheered him on.
Medvedev, who received the US Open in 2021, misplaced the match in 49 minutes. He had 5 double-faults to Berrettini’s zero, put solely 36% of his first serves in play to Berrettini’s 65% and received solely 17 of the 67 factors.
It was fairly a turnaround from the earlier three conferences between the gamers, which have been all received by Medvedev.
According to statistics supplier Opta, Berrettini grew to become the fifth participant for the reason that ATP rankings began in 1973 to defeat a top-10 opponent 6-0, 6-0 — a rating in any other case generally known as a double bagel — with the final time it occurred being a decade in the past when David Goffin routed Tomas Berdych on the Italian Open.
“I wouldn’t expect to win like that, and it doesn’t happen that often,” Berrettini stated.
Medvedev was enjoying his first match on clay this yr, having not too long ago crushed top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz to attain the ultimate on exhausting courts in Indian Wells, California.
Berrettini, a Wimbledon finalist in 2021 who has struggled with accidents in recent times, is ranked ninetieth. The Italian obtained a wild-card invitation for Monte Carlo.
“It was definitely one of the best performances of my life,” Berrettini stated. “I think I missed three shots in the whole match.”
