{"id":92074,"date":"2025-08-18T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92074\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T14:56:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T14:56:14","slug":"daniil-medvedev-threatens-to-boycott-matches-in-future-in-warning-to-atp-chiefs-tennis-sport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/92074\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev threatens to boycott matches in future in warning to ATP chiefs | Tennis | Sport"},"content":{"rendered":"

Daniil Medvedev<\/a> has revealed that he has spoken to his team about the prospect of boycotting matches in future due to timings. The former world No. 1 believes that play gets underway too early at plenty of competitions, and he therefore said he won\u2019t be among those stepping on to the court first further down the line.<\/p>\n

Instead, if Medvedev is drawn to play during the early hours of the day, he has outlined how he intends to stay in bed and put a line through competing entirely \u2013 handing his opponent the victory regardless of the circumstances.<\/p>\n

Speaking to The Guardian<\/a>, he explained: \u201cI was talking to my team today. I was like: \u2018When I\u2019m 35, I might just boycott the 11am matches.\u2019 I\u2019ll be like: \u2018I\u2019m not coming. Walkover.\u2019 Like: \u2018Yeah, I didn\u2019t wake up. Sorry, guys.\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cIn my opinion, 11 is so early. You have to wake up at 6.30 in the morning, where, if you play at night, you wake up at 9am. So it changes the perspective of the match. It\u2019s crazy mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Match timings in tennis has been a hot topic recently, with some players complaining about the impact that any delays have on matches, especially those waiting in the wings to compete. A number of players have spoken out about how they feel at a disadvantage when their games are pushed back, especially at the last minute.<\/p>\n

Jessica Pegula explained: \u201cIf you\u2019re in a grand slam and you follow a three-out-of-five-set match, and they go five, you\u2019re screwed.\u201d<\/p>\n

Karen Khachanov also feels there is an element of suffering from a \u2018false start\u2019 when your match does not take place at the allocated time, especially if it is changed at the last minute and therefore warmups have already taken place.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cIt\u2019s tough to wake yourself up again. Let\u2019s say you warmed up, you are full of adrenaline, you are ready to go on court, and then all of a sudden, there\u2019s another set.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo you are thinking: \u2018OK, should I eat now? Should I just sleep? Should I watch the phone or I just, I don\u2019t know, look at the roof? What do I do? Play cards with my team?\u2019 Sometimes you just don\u2019t really know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daniil Medvedev has revealed that he has spoken to his team about the prospect of boycotting matches in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[21198,26603,99,428,9519,62731],"class_list":{"0":"post-92074","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-atp-tour","9":"tag-daniil-medvedev","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-tennis","12":"tag-tennis-section","13":"tag-tennis-match-timings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92074","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=92074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}