“War” of statements Zverev-Medvedev: “He is playing unfair”-“He is in his world”

A new beef broke out in the tennis arena. THE Sasha Zverev accused him Daniil Medvedev for unsportsmanlike conduct following his loss to the Russian at the ATP 1000 in Monte Carlo, with the latter responding accordingly to the German.

“He is one of the most unfair players in the world. I’m someone who takes fair play and fair competition very seriously, he doesn’t. He gets a toiler break while no longer allowed by regulation. There were 1,000 points in the match where he felt I was starting to play better than him and every time he tried to do something to spoil it. I am very disappointed with him, as an athlete. Of course it wasn’t good for me to get carried away by his games, it’s something that shouldn’t have happened to me and it’s my fault. But anyway, I believe that fair play should always be part of sportsZverev said.

For his part, Medvedev replied: “I don’t want to say much about it, because those were words he said in the heat of the moment, right after the fight. If he spoke a week later he would probably say different things. I’ll just say that we were never friends, we only hung out in juniors, so I was surprised to hear from him at tournament awards that he’s good friends with me and my wife, which he’s not. I don’t pay attention to his words, but I’m warning him now that if he keeps saying we’re friends, I’ll find him in the locker room and tell him that’s not the case, even if it makes us enemies and we don’t speak at all in the future. I’m good friends with about 90 players on the tour, I’m on good terms with 50 more, so I feel bad when something happens on the field. I know I can be unfair sometimes, but yesterday… Did he mind that I dropped the net rod? Where did I go to the bathroom? I went to pee, I don’t know what else I could do. In fact, after the toilet break I lost the next 2 games. Sasha lives in his own world. Every time he loses, we can find 25 interviews of him saying weird things. I know I was wrong in the past in fights I had with Rudd, Schwarzman or Katsanov and I am sorry that I made them feel negative with my presence, because they are very kind people. But Zverev is not like them. He better look in the mirror before he says I’m not playing fair».