Medvedev on Sound and Fury and Learning to Zip It

By Richard Pagliaro | @TennisNow | Wednesday, March 5, 2025

Photograph credit score: Sport TV

By his recreation and phrases, Daniil Medvedev can create a tennis tempest of sound and fury.

One of many sport’s most expressive gamers goals to press the mute button on himself.

Chatting with the media at Indian Wells, Medvedev confessed: “On court docket, I ought to converse much less.” 

Final week in Dubai, pissed off by 4 match factors slipping from his grip, Medvedev dropped the second-set tiebreaker towards Tallon Griekspoor 7-6(7), then obtained into it with chair umpire Adel Nour.

The chair umpire hit a venting Medvedev with a code violation prompting the mercurial Medvedev to unload.

“What did I say?” Medvedev stated standing up from his seat. “What is that this a double commonplace towards Russians?

“A double commonplace?”

Former No. 1 Medvedev wound up shedding a heart-breaker to Griekspoor and didn’t shake Nour’s hand although he stated afterward he had spoken to the chair umpire and resolved their subject.

Reflecting on his popularity as a vocal and demonstrative participant on court docket, Medvedev stated within the warmth of the second, with adrenaline speeding by means of his veins, he generally says issues he doesn’t imply.

“Nicely, initially, as I say, I do suppose on the court docket I ought to speak much less,” Medvedev stated. “The factor is that right here, I feel that I converse what I feel. On the court docket generally I say issues which I do not actually suppose.

“It is simply due to the adrenaline, the stakes, the stress of the second, I generally say issues which after the sport I can clearly say I didn’t suppose this, it is not true.”

Although he hopes to tone down the amount on court docket, Medvedev plans to be the identical candid, uncensored voice in pressers followers and media love to listen to converse.

“I do not actually know easy methods to reply this query as a result of I really feel like I’ve all the time been like this,” Medvedev instructed the media in Indian Wells. “I simply do not all the time inform what I feel, however, like, generally I preserve issues to myself, but when I talk about one thing, I favor to talk brazenly than to say just like the PR statements or one thing like this.”