Daniil psychologically could not stand the disgusting behavior of the stands and “collapsed.”
The Masters final in the American Indian Wells with the participation of Russian Daniil Medvedev and Spaniard Carlos Alcaraz could have been a celebration of tennis, but it ended in an unpleasant story. The prejudiced attitude of the fans brought our player out of moral balance.
Lost Advantage
For the second year in a row, Medvedev reached the decisive Masters match in Indian Wells. Our player’s opponent in the final of the American tournament was Alcaraz again. In last year’s confrontation between these tennis players, the fight did not work out: the young Spaniard defeated Daniil in two sets, spending a little over an hour to win.
The start of the rematch aroused hope for a successful outcome in the hearts of the fans of the Russian tennis player. Daniil made a break on Alcaraz’s first serve. He then took back two of his games to take a 3-0 lead.
Unfortunately, it was not possible to consolidate the success. In the fifth game, the Spaniard made a reverse break. Then the tennis players acted reliably, scoring points on their serves. The fate of the set was decided in a tiebreaker. The missed advantage greatly upset the Russian. Out of emotion, he even spoke unflatteringly about tennis.
“Such a shitty sport,” Medvedev said with the score 4:2 in the tiebreaker.
Emotions once again played a cruel joke on the Russian. He never managed to gather himself, allowing his opponent to take the first game – 7:6 (5).
Fan pressure
In the second set the fight didn’t work out at all. Danya already gave away the first game on his serve. Alcaraz was simply unstoppable at the beginning of the game. The Spaniard was also helped by the public, who frantically supported Carlos with every successful play.
But the fans rejoiced not only at Carlos’ success, but also applauded every unsuccessful action of our player. In the third game, another round of applause after Medvedev’s mistake led to the Russian breaking down. He launched into an angry tirade in Russian using obscene language.
– Just complete ****** (fools), ***** (idiots). I serve a double, they ***** ***** (rejoice), and when he serves a double, they ***** (also rejoice). Complete ******s (fools), Medvedev said in his hearts.
With such an attitude it is difficult to count on success, so the Russian was unable to impose a fight. During the entire second game, Medvedev took only one game, losing with a score of 1:6.
– It’s hard. It’s difficult to play in such an environment. To be honest, I felt a little out of place in the second set. This is not easy, because you need to try to achieve more,” the official ATP website quotes Medvedev as saying.
The Russian also lacked the support of his loved ones. Daniil jokingly said after the match that his wife and daughter were on the plane, so they could not give him the strength to win.
There is no point in belittling Alcaraz’s merits in this match; he played well. But if the crowd had not behaved so disgustingly, and had supported the tennis players equally, then the fight would have definitely been more exciting.
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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
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🏳️Mirra Andreeva [3] – Ayla Tomljanovic [WC]
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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.
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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
