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"Roland-Garros prefers Amazon to spectators": Medvedev furious at having played his quarter-final in the evening without an audience

2021-06-09T06:40:53.479Z


The Russian bowed Tuesday night to Stefano Tsitsipas in front of the Amazon cameras but in a Philippe-Chatrier short completely vid


Be careful, an erupting volcano.

Just after his defeat on Tuesday evening against Stefano Tsitsipas (6-3, 7-6, 7-5) in the quarter-finals, Daniil Medvedev was angry with the choice of the organizers to schedule his match in "night session" on the Amazon channel, that is to say in front of empty stands.

It was the last night session without an audience of the 2021 edition of Roland Garros before the extension of the curfew to 11 p.m. this Wednesday for a final "night session" between Berrettini and Djokovic.

The Russian is not the first to regret this situation, Djokovic notably spoke at the start of the tournament, but no one had yet pushed the volume so high.

I imagine you were disappointed to learn that there would be no audience ...

DANIIL MEDVEDEV

. Yes, 100%. And it's funny because yesterday (Monday), I started the third season of "Drive to survive" (series produced by Netflix on the backstage of Formula 1 Editor's note) and I think the second episode was called “Cash is king”. When the pandemic started, they were in Australia, they were ready to run and they asked Lewis Hamilton what he thought of racing under the current conditions. He replied that he didn't know what we were doing here. He was asked, "Why do you think they race anyway? ". He said “Cash is King”.

Well, it's the same here.

Our match was the duel of the day.

And Roland-Garros preferred Amazon to spectators.

It's that simple.

I think it's a good thing when you have sponsors, because that's how we as players manage to make money.

But this time, this year, we had more people at Roland Garros, we have Amazon but we get 15% less rewards.

So the question is: where is Amazon's money?

Do you think you still have a long way to go to be able to win here?

Hard to say because every time I don't win a tournament, it's a disappointment.

But before I came here this year, like I said, I felt great immediately.

I thought to myself: I can get good results.

After, if someone had told me that I would be in the quarterfinals and that I would lose against Tsitsipas, I would have signed immediately, I will not lie to you.

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It was a great battle today.

We fought to the last point.

If we talk about the last point (a serve with a spoon and a climb to the net), it was tactical.

It's not that I wanted to leave the court, but I feel like I wasn't lucky on some points.

But it's tennis, especially on clay.

For me, it was more difficult to win the breaks, the points of the match.

I think he was better on clay.

When you play against each other, with Stefanos, everyone is talking about the match three years ago (in 2018 at the Miami tournament where they almost came to blows Editor's note).

Can your rivalry become a milestone on the circuit?

It could. But because of the "Big Three" (Nadal, Djokovic, Federer Editor's note), tennis is considered to be a very conservative, very intelligent sport. As young people, we have to follow or we are destroyed by the media and the public. In other sports, there's this competition where people try to turn things up. Even though they don't hate each other, they try to say things to each other during the match, but tennis is not like that. So I don't think that will be the case between him and me. We're never going to be head-on like that. I think it's a shame since it could be a lot funnier.

Source: leparis

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