NEW YORK – Daniil Medvedev’s match was greater than six minutes late between factors on Sunday night time. The photographer entered the court docket at match factors, and the 2021 US Open champion was livid on the decide’s resolution to award the opponent.
Benjamin Bonji hit the primary serve, main 5-4 within the third set after successful the primary two. After he missed it, the photographer left his place earlier than the French might hit his second.
Choose Greg Allensworth introduced that after telling the photographer to get off the court docket, Bonnis will get one other first serve because of the delay. That is widespread in tennis. Medvedev then approached the chair and complained concerning the resolution.
“He needs to go dwelling. Everybody. He does not like being right here. He will get paid for video games, not time,” Medvedev cried out on the microphone behind his chair.
Medvedev continued to encourage the large booing of Louis Armstrong Stadium. It in the end lasted so lengthy that Bonzi tried to quiet the followers to serve. When he lastly did, he was double-cut, Medvedev gained the sport, then gained the set with a tiebreaker, extending the match.
The truth that followers booed him for his actions was paying homage to Medvedev’s 2019 match in the identical courtroom, and later the group gave him vitality, he stated in a post-match interview. He reached the ultimate of that yr and gained the title two years later.
