Karma becomes one of the great protagonists of the Australian Open semi-final match in between Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedevwho took victory after a spectacular comeback when it looked like his rival had the ticket for the final in hand.
“Karma!!!” shouted the former world number 1, looking at his technical team as soon as the match ended, in a celebration that many people did not understand at first.
The recipient was none other than Zverevwho used that concept to celebrate Daniil’s loss in the first round of Roland Garros against the semi-famous Brazilian Thiago Seyboth Wild.
Well, that stuck in Russian and This Friday he got his revenge.
The tension between the two started a few months before that Roland Garroswhen they met in the round of 16 of the Monte Carlo Masters 1000.
That day, Medvedev did his thing and went to the bathroom without permission when he was behind the scoreboard. In addition, he confronted the public several times and knocked down one of the poles holding the net.
After the match, which ended with the Russian winning the third set tiebreak, Zverev did not hesitate to assess his rival’s attitude. “He is one of the dirtiest tennis players in the world. I try to take sportsmanship and fair play very seriously, he doesn’t. Take a bathroom break when this is not possible. There are 1,000 situations where he feels that I am starting to play better and where he tries to do everything all the time” he lamented.
“I am very disappointed in him as an athlete.. Of course you can argue that it was my fault because I got distracted. That shouldn’t have happened on my part and it’s totally my fault and I feel bad on my part. But I still feel that fair play should be part of sport,” he added in a tense press conference.
Medvedev’s response did not take long. Far from trying to calm things down, he chose to add fuel to the fire. “What happened yesterday, the stick thing? Did you say what you said? And the toilet thing, well, I want to pee. What do you want me to do? I went to the bathroom, I was losing the next two games, he was serving to win the match and said I was going to the bathroom to play better. “Sascha lives in his own world,” he said.
“When he loses, we can find about 25 interviews where he says something different. I know that I am guilty of controversies with men like Casper Ruud, Diego Schwartzman or Karen Khachanov, and I am sorry that they might feel negative things about my way of being because they are very nice people. But Zverev is not this kind of person, he is not like them. “You should look in the mirror,” he continued.
Finally, Medvedev made it clear that he had no German connection: “We have never been very friends, maybe only in juniors. Only he, in his greetings, said something like he is a friend of mine and my wife, which certainly hasn’t happened in a long time,” he said.
Source: La Verdad
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