Another one for the collection. Daniel Medvedev demonstrates once again its great ability to stir up controversy. This time, using a rude gesture and some controversial statements to express his discomfort with the state of the balls of the Shanghai Masters 1000.
Medvedev thinks they are not right and their reaction in the form of protest has been to pretend that they are right. wiped the buttocks with one of these balls. A few moments later, and after receiving a warning, he addresses the chair umpire to say: “You can only wipe your shit with your balls“.
As if that were not enough, his complaint goes further, going so far as to emphasize Carlos Alcaraz Already Jannick Sinner in a press conference: “I don’t think it’s possible to change your style of play too much to adapt to these balls. What happens is that they benefit tennis players who have more ability to accelerate the ball when it arrives without much power”.
“The two best in the world are the ones who do it best“They are the only ones who can generate incredible power from these balls, so they benefit a lot from them, but I’m sure they would still be the best without them,” Daniil commented.
The most curious thing of all is that Medvedev admitted that he was aware of his ‘madness’ on the song: “Sometimes I’m going crazy. I’ve tried my whole life to find a way not to lose your temper and stay calmbut you never know what might work sometimes.”
“What happened was I got angry with him first warning they gave me (for wiping his tail with the ball) and I started covering my mouth while talking to the chair umpire. He didn’t say anything, he just muttered things like “you are very bad, you are bad`. Then I got the second warning and that’s it my head went a little. Fortunately, I was able to make this anger improve my tennis,” concluded the Russian.
Daniil Medvedev was in the mood tonight 💀
– The Tennis Letter (@TheTennisLetter) October 6, 2024
