“What are you sitting here for?” Medvedev just went crazy in the Wimbledon match!

Daniil Medvedev got into scandals more than once because of his impulsive nature. And if lately the tennis player has more or less learned to restrain his emotions, then at the beginning of his career, the Russian regularly lashed out at the judges and even the fans, allowing himself completely unworthy statements.

One such incident happened four years ago at Wimbledon. The athlete struggled to refrain from scolding, but in the end he still crossed the line.

For a provocative gesture had to pay a lot of money.

Drama in five sets

Medvedev went to Wimbledon 2019 in the status of a rising star in world tennis. Following the results of the previous season, the 22-year-old Russian entered the top 20 of the ATP rankings for the first time and continued to rise higher and higher. At the beginning of the new campaign, Daniil won his fourth title, winning the tournament in Bulgaria, and a couple of months before the trip to England, he reached the final in Barcelona.

The experience of performing on the British lawn by that time, however, was not the best for the athlete. In 2017, Medvedev flew out after the first round, in 2018 – after the second. On the grass surface, Daniel still didn’t feel too confident, but he didn’t plan to give up without a fight.

In the first round, Medvedev calmly figured out in three sets with Pablo Lorenzi, after which he defeated the Australian Alexei Popyrin. Daniil got a really difficult opponent only in the third round: he had to fight with Belgian David Goffin, seeded under the 21st number.

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The confrontation began well for Daniil: the Russian took the first and third sets, but in the end the difference in experience affected. In the fifth installment, Medvedev led with a score of 4:1, but allowed Goffin to first equalize and then turn the game around (6:4, 2:6, 6:3, 3:6, 5:7). At this decisive moment, the athlete staged a wild trick, unable to contain the accumulated emotions.

“Apple”

With a score of 40:30 in the seventh game, the linesman recorded an out when Medvedev served. Chief arbiter Pierre Bacca immediately canceled this decision, but Goffin hurried to file a protest and was right: the HawkEye system confirmed the Russian’s miss. A small incident confused Daniil, after which he made a second out-of-bounds in a row, allowing the Belgian to get even closer.

It was then that Medvedev lost his temper. Anger for his own mistake, the athlete decided out of habit to vent on the judges. First, Daniil sarcastically gave a thumbs up to the lineman, and then turned to the chief arbiter: the Russian rubbed two fingers together, hinting at the corruption of the tournament.

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The athlete did not stop there. Sitting down on the bench, Medvedev started yelling at the referee, while trying to look away so as not to run into a fine. In addition, the Russian replaced the second, abusive part in the English word bullshit, mixing it with the name of the system for determining outs (hawkeye). It turned out to be a decent and harmless (if you don’t know the context) word bullseye, meaning the center of the target or “bullseye”.

It’s an apple, an apple! I don’t swear, do I? You are nobody! I would say more, but of course I will be fined. Can I swear to your face? No, I’ll get a fine. What are you doing here? Not once in the history of tennis have you canceled anything. What are you even doing? the distraught tennis player shouted in English.

Leaving the court after the defeat, Daniel also defiantly hit the lawn with a racket, and then refused to shake hands with the judge. To avoid punishment, of course, failed. For unsportsmanlike behavior, Medvedev received a fine of 5.5 thousand dollars – a very substantial amount, but the athlete was still lucky with it. On the basis of the totality of violations, he could have been punished much more severely.