“Today, because [of the] wind, dry court, I had a mouthful of clay since probably the third game of the match, and I don't like it," he added. "I don't know if people like to eat clay, to have clay in their bags, their shoes, the socks, white socks; you can throw them into [the] garbage after clay season. Maybe some people like it. I don't.

“I am happy to have it finished. I'm going to have to have a good time off. Have to find positives. A lot of, yeah, a lot of relaxing next days. Happy to go to the next challenges even if, for sure, I wanted to stay longer in Paris, even if it's clay.”

Fortunately for Medvedev he can now flip his consideration to Wimbledon, having been banned from competing in 2022 alongside all Russian and Belarussian gamers.