Daniil Medvedev loses him after camera interference

The US Open always brings a high dramaBut on Sunday night, there was one of the most memotable matches in the recent memory on the rinsing meadows. The former Champion Daniil Medvedev, he added 13th, crashed from the tournament in a thriller with five placed in French Benjamin Bonzi, but it was Russian furious reaction to the dishes that stole the reflectors.

In the second round, Bunzi progressed with 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5), 6-4, transferred Medvedev for three hours and 45 minutes at Louis Armstrong Stadium. The Rollercoaster competition has already shown a swing swing and resilience, But spirals in the controversy late in the third set after an extraordinary moment of external interference.

Handing a match at 5-4 in third place, Bunzi held a point of match when the Chair Judge Greg Allensworth, suddenly stopped the game. Camerman misled into court space, forcing Alensworth to call time. Proclamation of the “External Fault” incident, the judge assigned Bunzi new first service – the application of the rules that set the explosive reaction Medvedeva.

A complete champion of 2021. Years on the American chair, shouting in disbelief. “Are you a man? Are you human?” Medvedev was before accusing the Aldenworth haste to break the competition. Turning the tribunal’s microphone, he added to drip sarcasm, “he wants to go home, guys. He doesn’t like to be here; pay per match, not up to an hour.”

The twisting of the Louis Armstrong Stadium, Medvedevev is a savved, encouraged the wave of Boos, which flagged for more than six minutes. The interruption is scattered, which was unable to close the match at that attempt. Medvedev saved the game point, stepped into the riots and stole a set for the hope to keep his hope alive.

With the help of adrenaline, Malvedev shone the fourth set 6-0, appeared to turn the match on his head completely. Bunzi, however, regained calmness in decision-making. Twice French took over after falling and, on the band’s display, he seized the final break to seal the greatest great victory of his career.

“It was crazy,” Bunza admitted after. “I’ve never experienced something like that. Maybe we wait five minutes before the match, and it was so hard to play. I was trying to stay in the match, but it wasn’t easy. Energy was wild.

It was defeated for Medvedeva marked another low point in the disappointing season. After falling on his bench, he broke the racket in frustration, his body language that reflects both anger and disbelief. Russian becomes the first former champion that left this year open, continuing a series of poor results on Major 2025. years.

Episode was revived remembers of Medvedevsko controversial appearance in 2019. in the same place, when he cheered the fans after they were abolished and punished for multiple outbursts in court. While his triumph from 2021. year remains the peak of career, moments as Sunday evenings increase his reputation as one of the most widest sports.

As Bunzi moves to the second round, Medvedev leaves New York with more questions than answers. Once again, his tennis sheen was shaded by a storm of controversy; This time, he did not challenge his opponent, but wandering cameraman.