What Happened to Daniil Medvedev

As I looked at my phone upon waking up in New Jersey this morning, most of my unread messages were about the same baffling event: former ATP No. 1 Daniil Medvedev, who has been in the midst of a resurgent season that vaulted him back into the Top 10, had lost his opening match at ATP 1000 Monte Carlo by the shocking score of 6-0, 6-0 to 90th-ranked Matteo Berrettini.

Double bagels are exceptionally rare in tour-level men’s tennis; it’s no exaggeration to say that Medvedev today is the most shocking male recipient of a double bagel in my lifetime.

What the heck happened? And what did Medvedev have to say about it (translated from Russian into English) in the lone interview he did after the match? Read onward to find out, for Bounces subscribers only.

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