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<\/a><\/p>\nCondemning the former No. 1 for his \u201creprehensible attitude\u201d in smashing his Tecnifibre racquets after his loss to Bonzi, Toni Nadal called on tennis to dispense more punishment than the $42,500 in fines Medvedev incurred for his behavior.<\/p>\n
Toni Nadal, uncle and original coach of Rafael Nadal, said one reason we don\u2019t see this type of behavior in other sports is simple: Because they won\u2019t tolerate it.<\/p>\n
\u201cI believe that the time has come when tennis leaders should consider the possibility of applying sporting punishments to the increasingly common occurrence of tennis players breaking their racquets on the court,\u201d Toni Nadal wrote in his El Pais column. \u201cAs well as for us to consider why this type of reprehensible attitudes occur more frequently in our sport than in other disciplines.<\/p>\n
\u201cI have never seen a ping-pong player break a paddle and, very rarely, a golfer punish his club after making a mistake.\u201d<\/p>\n
The 2021 US Open champion Medvedev received a $30,000 fine for unsportsmanlike conduct and a $12,500 fine for racquet abuse, according to the Grand Slam rulebook.<\/p>\n
He received a total of $110,000 in prize money, so he still turned a profit at this year\u2019s US Open, though smaller than he would have liked.<\/p>\n
Still, Toni Nadal said a player of Medvedev\u2019s experience and skill should never implode in such dramatic fashion. Uncle Toni asserts the fines imposed \u201cdo not manage to eradicate his behavior\u201d suggesting a suspension is warranted in extreme cases.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn another unfortunate spectacle, [Medvedev] attacked his racquet to leave it in pieces,\u201d Toni Nadal wrote for El Pais. \u201cI am surprised that a player of Medvedev\u2019s stature is incapable of calming his nerves and that he is willing to give this image of himself, as well as that high financial sanctions such as the one subsequently imposed on him do not manage to eradicate his behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, August 31, 2025Photo credit: Elsa\/Getty Toni Nadal has seen enough of Daniil Medvedev\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[99,428],"class_list":{"0":"post-126650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-sports","9":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}