President of the Russian Tennis Federation Shamil Tarpishchev on Friday, January 28, commented on the incident that occurred during the match between Daniil Medvedev and the Greek Stefanos Tsitsipas at the Australian Open tournament.
Tarpishchev explained that Medvedev expressed dissatisfaction with the fact that Tsitsipas’s father constantly prompted his son during the draws, and yelled at the judge.
“The player is always nervous about some kind of injustice. In this case, it is a fact that the father of Tsitsipas suggests. Any player has a peak of psychological stress. Solving issues related to the remark of Tsitsipas worked for Dani in this way. It must be able to jump. Dani has a psychologist, ”Sport-Express quotes Tarpischev.
Ex-fifth racket of the world Anna Chakvetadze also commented on the incident with the Russian athlete.
“Medvedev’s aggression? I understand that from the outside it may not look very nice. But he needed to get angry in a sporting way. It was necessary to improve his quality of the game, to cheer up, but he slightly overdid it. The whole tournament was told that the father of Tsitsipas tells. He even received warnings,” Chakvetadze said.
According to her, Daniil is still learning to play more calmly.
Earlier in the day, Medvedev defeated Tsitsipas to reach the final of the Australian Open against Spaniard Rafael Nadal. In the semifinals, the Russian athlete beat the Greek in four sets – 7:6 (7:5), 4:6, 6:4, 6:1. The meeting between Medvedev and Nadal will take place on Sunday, January 30.
In the quarterfinals of the Australian Open on January 26, the Russian defeated the Canadian Felix Auger-Aliassime in five sets. As Tarpischev said then, this victory of Medvedev became historic.
Source: IZ
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