The tennis player’s unrestrained behavior received well-deserved praise from Australian Open officials.
The emotions of the players on the court add entertainment to the matches, but at the same time, sometimes this results in unpleasant consequences.
Daniil Medvedev’s Australian Open quarter-final opponent Hubert Hurkacz received a fine for his disgusting behavior, ruining his reputation as a good guy.
“I applaud him”
Medvedev has never been a good boy on the tennis court. He often had conflict situations with match participants, fans and spectators. Everyone has long been accustomed to this. But Polish tennis player Hubert Hurkacz, with whom the Russian played in Melbourne, usually behaves like a gentleman not only on the court, but also off it.
The Pole started the new season very well. For the first time in his career, Hubert made it to the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. This will take him to eighth in the ATP rankings next week. An athlete has never climbed so high before.
It was Daniil who stopped the Pole’s victorious march in Melbourne. In the quarter-final match, the athletes staged a four-hour battle for five sets. Our tennis player emerged victorious from this confrontation. After the game, Hubert even praised the Russian, which is something you rarely hear from Polish representatives in modern conditions.
— It was a very intense match, Daniil played fantastically. Victory was close, but this is sport. I applaud him,” the PolskieRadio24.pl website quotes Hurkacz as saying.
But during the match, Hubert was not so friendly. At unlucky moments, the tennis player lost control of himself, allowing his emotions to break out. He repeatedly threw his racket onto the court.
Once she flew over the net and just missed Medvedev’s foot, fortunately the Russian reacted to it normally. But even this did not calm the Pole. After another lost game, he started a showdown with equipment on the bench, for which he received a warning from the referee.
Also, the 26-year-old athlete did not particularly watch his language in lost rallies. He often used obscene language. The organizers of the Australian Open could not ignore such disgusting behavior. On January 27, it became known that the Pole was fined a substantial fine of $7,600 (676.4 thousand rubles) for his unrestrained behavior.
The athlete drew the right conclusions from this situation. He recently announced on social media that he was donating iconic racquets from his personal collection to a charity auction.
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Austrian tennis player Sebastian Ofner (ATP 131) suffered a disappointing defeat in the second round of the 2026 Australian Open qualifiers.
In the semi-finals of the selection, the Austrian player lost to the US representative in three sets Nisheshu Basavareddy (ATP 239) in 2 hours 32 minutes. Basavareddy took the victory over Ofner in the third set super tiebreaker.
Sebastian was ahead 7:1 in the super tiebreaker and started celebrating his victory after gaining a point. Sebastian started walking towards the goal and the referee told him the match wasn’t over yet.
As a result, Ofner lost 11:13 and missed two match points: one at 10:9 on the return, the other at 11:10 on serve.
Basavareddy will compete against George Loffagen (Great Britain, ATP 211) in the Australian Open qualifying final.
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On January 14, all second round matches in tough tournaments ended WTA 500 in Adelaide And WTA 250 in HobartIt will take place parallel to the Australian Open 2026 qualifying match (Melbourne).
In Adelaide, Dayana Yastremskaya’s felon Katerina Sinyakova lost to Diana Schneider in the second round.
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Second-seeded five-hundred Madison Keys knocked out Tereza Valentova, and eighth-seeded Victoria Mboko fought Anna Kalinskaya.
Victoria Mboko [8] – 🏳️ Anna Kalinskaya – 6:2, 3:6, 7:6 (8:6) Teresa Valentova – Madison Keys [2] – 4:6, 1:6
WTA 500 Adelaide. Quarter final matches
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🏳️Mirra Andreeva [3] – Ayla Tomljanovic [WC]
🏳️Diana Schneider [9] – Emma Navarro [6]
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Kimberly Birrell- Jacqueline Christian [Q] Victoria Mboko [8] – Madison Keys [2]
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In Hobart, top seed Emma Raducanu advanced to the quarter-finals without a fight – Magdalena French withdrew from her second round match.
Olga Danilovich, who defeated McCartney Kessler and advanced to the second place, also defeated Peyton Stearns in the 1/8 final.
Third-seeded Iva Jovic crushes her opponents: The young American first gave up just one game to Janice Tjen and then defeated Renata Sarasua with scores of 6:1, 6:2. Her next opponent will be Magda Linette.
WTA 250 Hobart. 1/8 final
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Emma Raducanu [1] – Magdalena French – WO., Raducanu Rebecca Shramkova – Talia Preston [WC] – 4:6, 1:6
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(Adelaide) Leylah Annie Fernandez and her Hungarian playing partner Timea Babos fell 7-6 (3), 6-7 (6) and 6-10 to the Czech Katerina Siniakova and the Chinese Zhang Shuai in the quarter-finals of the women’s doubles at the Adelaide tennis tournament on Wednesday.
Fernandez and Babos bowed after a tight duel lasting one hour and 59 minutes in front of the second seeds of the doubles tournament.
Siniakova and Zhang will face Kazakh Anna Danilina and Serbian Aleksandra Krunic, fourth seeds in the doubles, in the final four.
The Quebecoise, 22e world racket, lost to Russian Diana Shnaider 7-5, 6-3 in singles on Monday.
Furthermore, Ontario’s Victoria Mboko, eighth seed, will meet in the quarter-finals of the women’s singles with American Madison Keys, second seed, at the end of the evening.
Mboko is playing her first official WTA singles tournament in 2026, and her first since Hong Kong, which she won, in November 2025.
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Maria Bouzkova [LL] – 6:3, 6:1
