Medvedev on Sound and Fury and Studying to Zip It

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

Photograph credit score: Sport TV

Via his sport 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.

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

Final week in Dubai, annoyed by 4 match factors slipping from his grip, Medvedev dropped the second-set tiebreaker in opposition to Tallon Griekspoor 7-6(7), then acquired 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 normal in opposition to Russians?

“A double normal?”

Former No. 1 Medvedev wound up dropping 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 problem.

Reflecting on his fame 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 typically says issues he doesn’t imply.

“Effectively, initially, as I say, I do assume on the court docket I ought to speak much less,” Medvedev stated. “The factor is that right here, I believe that I communicate what I believe. On the court docket typically I say issues which I do not actually assume.

“It is simply due to the adrenaline, the stakes, the stress of the second, I typically say issues which after the sport I can clearly say I didn’t assume this, it isn’t 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 communicate.

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