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Medvedev, who is currently ranked 10th, received a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct and will likely be hit with a hefty fine for his actions early in the second set.<\/p>\n
He was already struggling when he landed a forehand in the net to drop his opening service game of the second set and fall behind 2-0, and he slammed his racket near the baseline. Then he picked the racket up and threw it toward a tarp at the end of the court.<\/p>\n
Still not through, Medvedev continually picked his racket frame up and kept on smashing it until it was destroyed enough to fit through an opening in a courtside trash can as the crowd sarcastically cheered him on.<\/p>\n
Medvedev, who won the US Open in 2021, lost the match in 49 minutes. He had five double-faults to Berrettini’s zero, put only 36% of his first serves in play to Berrettini’s 65% and won only 17 of the 67 points.<\/p>\n
It was quite a turnaround from the previous three meetings between the players, which were all won by Medvedev.<\/p>\n
According to statistics provider Opta, Berrettini became the fifth player since the ATP rankings started in 1973 to defeat a top-10 opponent 6-0, 6-0 — a score otherwise known as a double bagel — with the last time it happened being a decade ago when David Goffin<\/a> routed Tomas Berdych at the Italian Open.<\/p>\n “I wouldn’t expect to win like that, and it doesn’t happen that often,” Berrettini said.<\/p>\n Medvedev was playing his first match on clay this year, having recently beaten top-ranked Carlos Alcaraz<\/a> to reach the final on hard courts in Indian Wells, California.<\/p>\n Berrettini, a Wimbledon finalist in 2021 who has struggled with injuries in recent years, is ranked 90th. The Italian received a wild-card invitation for Monte Carlo.<\/p>\n “It was definitely one of the best performances of my life,” Berrettini said. “I think I missed three shots in the whole match.”\n<\/p><\/div>\n MONACO — Former No. 1 Daniil Medvedev lost his temper, smashed his racket on the red clay court seven successive times and deposited the mangled frame in a trash bin midway through a 6-0, 6-0 loss to Matteo Berrettini at the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday. Medvedev, who is currently ranked 10th, received a code … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":26746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Medvedev-smashes-racket-during-double-bagel-loss-to-Berrettini.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26745"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26747,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26745\/revisions\/26747"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jubi24.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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