{"id":593493,"date":"2026-04-08T13:44:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593493\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T13:44:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T13:44:10","slug":"medvedev-smashes-racket-during-double-bagel-loss-to-berrettini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/593493\/","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev smashes racket during double bagel loss to Berrettini"},"content":{"rendered":"

MONACO — Former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev<\/a> lost his temper, smashed his racket on the red clay court seven successive times and deposited the mangled frame in a trash bin midway through a 6-0, 6-0 loss to Matteo Berrettini<\/a> at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Medvedev, who is currently ranked 10th, received a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct and will likely be hit with a hefty fine for his actions early in the second set.<\/p>\n

He was already struggling when he landed a forehand in the net to drop his opening service game of the second set and fall behind 2-0, and he slammed his racket near the baseline. Then he picked the racket up and threw it toward a tarp at the end of the court.<\/p>\n

Still not through, Medvedev continually picked his racket frame up and kept on smashing it until it was destroyed enough to fit through an opening in a courtside trash can as the crowd sarcastically cheered him on.<\/p>\n

Medvedev, who won the US Open in 2021, lost the match in 49 minutes. He had five double-faults to Berrettini’s zero, put only 36% of his first serves in play to Berrettini’s 65% and won only 17 of the 67 points.<\/p>\n

It was quite a turnaround from the previous three meetings between the players, which were all won by Medvedev.<\/p>\n

According to statistics provider Opta, Berrettini became the fifth player since the ATP rankings started in 1973 to defeat a top-10 opponent 6-0, 6-0 — a score otherwise known as a double bagel — with the last time it happened being a decade ago when David Goffin<\/a> routed Tomas Berdych at the Italian Open.<\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t expect to win like that, and it doesn’t happen that often,” Berrettini said.<\/p>\n

Medvedev was playing his first match on clay this year, having recently beaten top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> to reach the final on hard courts in Indian Wells, California.<\/p>\n

Berrettini, a Wimbledon finalist in 2021 who has struggled with injuries in recent years, is ranked 90th. The Italian received a wild-card invitation for Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n

“It was definitely one of the best performances of my life,” Berrettini said. “I think I missed three shots in the whole match.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONACO — Former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev lost his temper, smashed his racket on the red clay court…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[565],"tags":[64,63,85,747],"class_list":["post-593493","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\/593493","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=593493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/593493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/593494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=593493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=593493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=593493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}