Daniil Medvedev shares principle on followers booing him in snappy verdict

May 01, 2023 at 6:13 PM
Daniil Medvedev shares principle on followers booing him in snappy verdict

As effectively as his argument that booing was typically “deserved”, Medvedev additionally floated a principle as to why he and his colleagues had skilled a lot of it at current tournaments. “And, yeah, again, sometimes you deserve it, sometimes not,” he stated. 

“Probably, you know, I hit the racket a little bit, so maybe I deserve it. One time I took a challenge, they started booing. What, you don’t want me to take a challenge?” And Medvedev referenced Novak Djokovic – who was additionally heckled for questioning a ball mark in Monte Carlo – as he claimed it had turn out to be extra commonplace amongst tennis crowds.

Medvedev added: “I feel like also sometimes the crowd right now in tennis, for whatever reason, I don’t know, maybe it was like this before also, comes for this excitement. So as soon as something is happening, they don’t even know what’s happening, they just boo you.

Yeah, I experienced this quite a bit. Novak experienced it. I mean, a lot of players. I think it’s just part of tennis right now.”