{"id":519717,"date":"2026-04-08T15:01:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T15:01:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T15:01:08","slug":"monte-carlo-masters-daniil-medvedev-destroys-racquet-in-6-0-6-0-loss-to-matteo-berrettini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/519717\/","title":{"rendered":"Monte Carlo Masters: Daniil Medvedev destroys racquet in 6-0 6-0 loss to Matteo Berrettini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The world number 10 hit 28 unforced errors, five double faults and won just four of 21 points behind his second serve in a dismal showing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Medvedev has become infamous for his outbursts &#8211; most notably at last year&#8217;s US Open, where <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/tennis\/articles\/c0qly4k97q0o\" class=\"ssrcss-18834jl-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he had a meltdown<\/a> after a photographer walked on court mid-match.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Afterwards, Berrettini wrote &#8216;scusa Carlo&#8217; on the camera lens &#8211; an apology to Italian actor Carlo Verdone, who called Medvedev his favourite player earlier this week. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wildcard Berrettini, the 2021 Wimbledon finalist making his way back up the rankings after a lengthy injury lay-off, said it was &#8220;one of the best performances of my life&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think I missed three shots in the entire match,&#8221; Berrettini, 29, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think the game plan was perfect and my weapons were working.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world number six Berrettini will face rising Brazil star Joao Fonseca next.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">World number 15 Andrey Rublev also suffered an early exit, losing 6-4 6-1 to Belgium&#8217;s Zizou Bergs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world number 10 hit 28 unforced errors, five double faults and won just four of 21 points&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-519717","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-sports","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}