Daniil Medvedev on Monday lost his temper at the Margaret Court Arena while clashing up against Maxime Cressy to book a spot at the quarter-finals of the first Grand Slam of the year.<\/p>\n
The reason behind his anger was apparently because he was refused to leave the court for freshening up,\u00a0Reuters\u00a0<\/em>reports.<\/p>\n The Russian defeated Cressy of America 6-2 7-6(4), 6-7(4) 7-5 to grab a spot in the quarterfinals of the Australian Open. Medvedev said to the reporters, \u201cThe thing is that I know that in the 35 (degre) heat when you are playing in the sun, I am going to want to change after two sets because you are going to get wet.\u201d<\/p>\n The player further said that he needed \u201ca good four minutes\u201d to change and freshen up. \u201cI don\u2019t see any logic in these rules, so hence I can call this stupid.\u201d The US Open champion expressed his madness and told he was not in a good mood today.<\/p>\n World No. Two Medvedev is defending his title at the Grand Slam to add points so that he can grab the World No. One position in the absence of Novak Djokovic who was departed from Australia following visa controversial case.<\/p>\n Medvedev will be next facing Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime tomorrow at the quarterfinals to book a spot in the semis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Medvedev will be next facing Canada\u2019s Felix Auger-Aliassime tomorrow at the quarterfinals to book a spot in the semis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":169,"featured_media":37999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[689,1082,2221,203,335],"class_list":["post-17253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tennis","tag-australian-open","tag-daniil-medvedev","tag-felix-auger-aliassime","tag-novak-djokovic","tag-us-open"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}