The Russian tennis player exploded when he received a blow from the Dane mid-game in the Masters 1000 quarterfinals.
Although Daniel Medvedev he kept the fight going Holger Rune with parts of 7-5 and 6-4 and advanced to the semifinals of Indian Wells Masters 1000, the tense crossing of the two, throughout the game and finished, took all the eyes.
The first shots of the second set were running, with an initial 7-5 in favor of Medvedev, when Rune asked the current number 4 in the ranking to come to the net to dispute a point. At short toss the Russian came well and returned it short too, That’s when the Dane responded with a powerful backhand to the opponent’s body.who came to adjust the racket to return it and eventually lost the point to another response from the opponent.
From there Daniel’s anger started. He waited for Rune to turn and He made a sign with two fingers to her eyes (telling her that he was looking at her)already triggering the linesman’s intervention and called them both to clarify what happened. They shook hands and They exchanged a few words so they could continue the game.
After the meeting, Medvedev crossed it: “I didn’t hear you apologize.”. On the other hand, Rune simply replied that there was none “reason to talk about it”. Then, in a press conference, the Russian who became number 1 in the ranking in February 2022, continued his anger: “Now the good points we played will not be remembered, but the other things. say the I’m sorry, apologize, whatever, but he didn’t. That’s when I went crazy for a while, I got angry.. I don’t think there is a continuation of this story, there is no more.”Daniel said according to specialized media Break Point.
The 28-year-old tennis player revealed that he has the no “Nothing against Rune”although he makes it clear that he doesn’t like Rune’s attitude: “I never saw him apologize.. I don’t think I do these things very often, although the truth is that It’s a very good tactic to fight your opponent when you find yourself in such a situation, then say sorry and forget about it. I think that when you apologize, everything is forgotten immediately, but I won’t give more examples either. In this case I didn’t see him apologize and I got angry, sorry for my reaction.”
After moving on to the semis, Medvedev will have to face the American Tommy Paulthe big surprise of the painting, who? eliminated Casper Ruud in the quarterfinals, to earn a ticket to the Indian Wells final. On the other side of the key, there will be a surprising rivalry between Carlos Alcaraz and Jannik Sinner.
Source: Tycsports
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