Upstart rival versus legendary fan favourite produced a one-sided crowd but two weeks of angst in Medvedev’s matches spilled over in his press conference - as you canMedvedev had a running battle with the chair umpire about “idiots” inside Rod Laver Arena on Sunday night while also taking on the ballkids for how they handled his service games.
“It’s going to be a little bit of a new press conference because I’m going to start with a short or long - I don’t know, I’ll try to keep it short - story of a young kid who dreamed about big things in tennis,” he began. “There are a few moments in my career where this kid is doubting whether he should continue to dream about these big things or not,” he said.Credit:He remembered losing at the French Open early in his rise and arriving at the press conference to see just one Russian journalist in the room.
“I’m not going to really tell why. From now on I’m playing for myself, for my family, to provide my family, for people that trust in me, of course for all the Russians because I feel a lot of support there.
The nationalistic mobs in the stands yelling xenophobic epithets at Medvedev have cast a long shadow over an otherwise remarkable sporting event. For shame, Australia.
If you can’t be nice to ball kids who are unpaid volunteers…. Then, yeah maybe don’t play.
Does he watch the replays of his matches & see what we see? There were some dicks in the crowd but he brought the heat onto himself. It’s all in how he carries himself on court & if that’s the way he rolls, fine but the dicks will continue being dicks & all countries have dicks
Saddened he had a bad experience.Lessons to be learned.His coach will need to cover 'focus' strategies. Learn that what others think shouldnt affect (or define) you & use the 'disrespectful' acts to trigger a signal to refocus on task at hand. Much success with future endeavours.
Man I feel sorry for the umps and ball kids .. gonna have to deal with this bloke for a long time. Abuses and complains about everything . Just wants to be treated like king
Well he is rude to everyone of cause everyone would be on Nadal side he is a gentleman so nice to the ball children never said a bad thing to them or anyone win or lose This my opinion this man came here thinking he was going to have all Australians on his side
The worst AO audience I have even seen in decades.
Respect is earned, you'd think that with the Novak issue some of these idiots would realise that they are not above everyone else. You act like a child and you get what you deserve.
Wasn’t it a game to see whose 2nd and 3rd best
You reap what you sow…when you act like an ass towards the umpires and worst of all towards ball kids, then expect the crowd to get on your back.
The more he sooks the worse it will get.
“Just go back to Russia” shouted multiple times.. “disrespectful”?
Stop blaming the crowd you big sook Aussie Aussie Aussie Oi oi oi
Lol ain’t nothing New here…!
Tough day. Rafa definitely had the crowd behind him. Watch a match though
You acted like a child. You’re lucky you didn’t get deported for that outburst son
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