Draper said afterwards he was not angry with Medvedev and did not blame him.<\/p>\n
“First of all, Daniil was the stronger player fair and square,” the 24-year-old told BBC Sport.<\/p>\n
“It\u2019s a difficult situation for the ref. I don’t think I did enough to hinder him, but at the end of the day I did make a slight thing with my hands.<\/p>\n
“On one hand, I get it, but on the other, I don’t think it was enough to distract Daniil.<\/p>\n
“If he had missed the next ball and it was very clear that I had hindered him, then I would get it.<\/p>\n
“I think he’s played the rules quite well. The rally carried on and I was able to win the point so I don’t think I should have lost the point. I think it’s pretty harsh.”<\/p>\n
Medvedev, who goes on to play Carlos Alcaraz in the semi-finals, said he did not feel “good” about the incident but denied he had cheated.<\/p>\n
“Was I distracted big time? No,” the world number 11 said.<\/p>\n
“Was I distracted a bit? Yes. Is it enough to win the point? I don’t know.<\/p>\n
“If you look on the first forehand I do after it happened, I think I could have done a better shot if there was no gesture from Jack.<\/p>\n
“Do I feel good about it? Not really, but I also don’t feel like I cheated. I let the referee decide.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Draper said afterwards he was not angry with Medvedev and did not blame him. “First of all, Daniil…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":537433,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-537432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=537432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/537432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/537433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=537432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=537432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=537432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}