{"id":91129,"date":"2025-08-25T07:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91129\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:26:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:26:07","slug":"us-open-2025-daniil-medvedev-loses-to-benjamin-bonzi-after-incredible-night-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/91129\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open 2025: Daniil Medvedev loses to Benjamin Bonzi after incredible night in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is not the first time Medvedev has been the central character on an entertaining night in New York.<\/p>\n

On his way to reaching the 2019 final, the he assumed the role of pantomime villain as he wound up the American fans.<\/p>\n

He was booed for trolling the crowd with his provocative post-match celebrations and interviews, before winning them over with a heroic performance in a five-set defeat by Rafael Nadal in the final.<\/p>\n

Two years later, Medvedev received their acclaim after beating Novak Djokovic to win his first major title \u2013 and celebrating with a comedic fall to the court inspired by a computer game.<\/p>\n

In 2023, he argued with some supporters in a late-night battle against Australia’s Chris O’Connell \u2013 but this time Medvedev ensured the crowd was behind him in an attempt to turn the match around against Bonzi.<\/p>\n

Medvedev recently opened up about his on-court antics in an enlightening interview with BBC Sport,<\/a> describing his outbursts as like “honking a car horn”.<\/p>\n

But his reaction to losing in the first round of a Grand Slam for the third time in a row was a concerning sight.<\/p>\n

Instead of making a quick exit, Medvedev sat disconsolately on his chair before destroying a racquet by repeatedly smashing it against the metal bench holding his racquet bag.<\/p>\n

The six-time Grand Slam finalist broke down in tears and stayed sat as Bonzi began his on-court interview.<\/p>\n

Afterwards Medvedev, who looks set to drop out of the world’s top 20, said he felt during the match he wanted to “finish his career”.<\/p>\n

Asked if it was the end, he replied: “Not today, but when I’m finishing my career, you never know where you want to do it. Today I was, like, ‘this could be a nice place to do it’.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is not the first time Medvedev has been the central character on an entertaining night in New…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":91130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-91129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91129","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=91129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}