Daniil Medvedev and Stefanos Tsitsipas had a tense moment after the handshakes meant to be show sportsmanship at the Miami Open on Thursday.
It seems to all boil down Medvedev’s frustration over something Tsitsipas said after the match and an emergency toilet break and– even though he also took one during the match.
From 7Sport:
“You go emergency toilet for five minutes during (the decisive third set) and then you hit let and you don’t say sorry. You think you are a good kid?” Medvedev said.
“Look at me. Hey, look at me. You don’t look at me?”
As the umpire told the world No.52 to sit down, both agreed that Tsitsipas ‘started it’, in Medvedev’s words.
“He said ‘(expletive) Russian’. You think this is normal?” Medvedev asked the umpire.
“I answer him because he doesn’t know how to fight. He’s a small kid who doesn’t know how to fight.
“If he doesn’t say anything I have no problems with him, but if he says something to me and he wants to fight, he needs to do it.”
This isn’t the first time Medvedev has made headlines for his post-match behavior. He threw coins at the umpire’s chair at the 2017 Wimbledon following a loss. “In the heat of the moment, I did a bad thing,” he said at the time. “I apologize for this. It was just that I was packing my things and I saw my wallet.”