{"id":520814,"date":"2026-04-09T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520814\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T04:48:13","slug":"daniil-medvedev-smashes-racket-six-times-during-double-bagel-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/520814\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev smashes racket six times during double-bagel defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev threw his racket six times during a furious outburst as he suffered a shock 6-0, 6-0 defeat by Matteo Berrettini in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters.<\/p>\n<p>The world No10 was beaten ruthlessly in only 49 minutes by Berrettini, a former world No6 at present ranked No90, losing a match without winning a game for the first time in his career at tour level.<\/p>\n<p>This result makes Berrettini, a wild card in Monte Carlo, the first player in ten years to \u201cdouble-bagel\u201d an opponent ranked in the top ten of the ATP Tour. It is only the fifth time it has happened since the rankings were first published in 1973.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The previous time such a scoreline occurred on the men\u2019s tour was in the quarter-finals of this tournament last year, when Alex de Minaur defeated Grigor Dimitrov. Not since 2016, when David Goffin beat Thomas Berdych at the Rome Masters, has a player in the top ten suffered such an overwhelming defeat.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"403\"   width=\"716\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/6605cd94-70b7-43b3-ad46-5a8aa1d909d4.gif\" alt=\"Tennis player Daniil Medvedev in an orange shirt and black shorts hitting a forehand on a clay court.\" class=\"wp-image-21416586\"\/>The Russian\u2019s frustration peaked as he went 2-0 down in the second set<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev won only 17 points across the match, nine of which came on his own serve. He did not have a single game point during his service games, and after he was broken for the sixth time in the match to go 2-0 down in the second set, he let his frustrations get the better of him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The 30-year-old threw his racket six times, first launching it to the back of the court before continuously smashing it into the clay while walking to his seat courtside.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it was one of the best performances of my life,\u201d Berrettini, a Wimbledon finalist in 2021, said afterwards. \u201cI think I missed three shots in the entire match and it is not easy against a tricky player like Daniil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"   height=\"3053\" width=\"2653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/07dfd7ad-c1fb-4461-90c4-a7eb25179d00.jpg\" alt=\"Tennis player Daniil Medvedev covers his head with a green towel during a match.\" class=\"wp-image-21414805\"\/>Medvedev was visibly frustrated during the round of 32 match in Monte CarloManon Cruz\/Reuters<\/p>\n<p>However, this was a particularly poor display from Medvedev, who landed only 36 per cent of his first serves and committed 27 unforced errors.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian had enjoyed a successful 2026 up to this point, having won titles at the Brisbane Open and the Dubai Open. At Indian Wells last month he defeated <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.com\/topic\/carlos-alcaraz\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> and Jack Draper on the way to the final before he was beaten by Jannik Sinner.<\/p>\n<p>Berrettini, 29, will now advance to the third round having yet to drop a game after his first-round opponent, Roberto Bautista Agut, retired at 4-0. The Italian will play either Brazil\u2019s Jo\u00e3o\u00a0Fonseca or Arthur Rinderknech next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev threw his racket six times during a furious outburst as he suffered a shock 6-0, 6-0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520815,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-520814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-sports","tag-tennis","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520814","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=520814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520814\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}