{"id":794138,"date":"2026-10-06T21:44:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794138\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T21:44:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T21:44:17","slug":"china-open-daniil-medvedev-finally-runs-out-of-chances-with-disqualification-against-novak-djokovic-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/794138\/","title":{"rendered":"China Open: Daniil Medvedev finally runs out of chances with disqualification against Novak Djokovic"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is hard – and probably unwise – to take your eyes off Medvedev’s matches, and he is very popular with the media for his engaging, reflective and humorous interviews once the dust has settled.<\/p>\n

But he has gone too far on court on many occasions, with much of his aggression directed at umpires.<\/p>\n

At Wimbledon in 2017, a 21-year-old Medvedev was so incensed about some of the decisions made by umpire Mariana Alves in his second-round match that he sprinkled coins at her feet<\/a> as she climbed down from the chair.<\/p>\n

He later apologised and denied he was accusing her of bias.<\/p>\n

Two years ago, again at Wimbledon, it appeared officials were considering defaulting Medvedev for an outburst towards umpire Eva Asderaki-Moore.<\/p>\n

Medvedev claimed he said something in Russian which was “not pleasant, but not over the line” – and, after a discussion between the umpire, supervisor and tournament referee, he escaped with a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct.<\/p>\n

He was fined more than \u00a360,000<\/a> for his behaviour at the 2025 Australian Open, which included trying to destroy a net camera, and had an infamous meltdown later that year at the US Open.<\/p>\n

On a rowdy New York night, Benjamin Bonzi had match point for a straight-set win against Medvedev in the first round when a photographer inexplicably walked on to court<\/a> between his first and second serves.<\/p>\n

Umpire Greg Allensworth awarded the Frenchman another first serve because of the delay, sparking fury from Medvedev.<\/p>\n

Medvedev accused Allensworth of hoping to engineer a quick finish – as he gets paid by the match, rather than the hour – and there was a pause of over five minutes as he whipped up the crowd.<\/p>\n

He did save the match point, but went on to lose in five sets before obliterating his racquet by smashing it repeatedly against the table next to his chair.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is hard – and probably unwise – to take your eyes off Medvedev’s matches, and he is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":794139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[101,118,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-794138","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\/794138","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=794138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/794138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/794139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=794138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=794138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=794138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}