Daniil Medvedev has claimed Alexander Zverev is living in his own world after the German accused him of unsportsmanlike behaviour.
Zverev’s comments claimed after Medvedev won their third round clash in Monte-Carlo in a last set tiebreak.
The German stated that Medvedev had gone for a toilet break after the seventh game of the final set which he claimed was ‘unfair.’
However after losing his quarter-final match to Holger Rune, Medvedev responded to the German’s comments saying that Zverev is living in his own world and he needs to look in the mirror, “First, I do think that honestly with probably 90 players on tour I’m great friends. With maybe 50 it’s not like best friends but really great relationship,” Medvedev was quoted as saying by the Daily Mail in his press conference.
“‘So I usually feel bad when something on court happens and let’s say I’m not fair play, because I know sometimes I’m not. Sascha is living in his own world. Yeah, Sascha, when he loses, we can find maybe 25 interviews of him where he does say some strange things.
“Again, honestly saying like if guys like Casper [Ruud], I don’t know, Andrey [Rublev], maybe Karen [Khachanov], even Diego, so I had let’s call it a fight with him in ATP Cup, honestly, I’m at fault, and probably he still like doesn’t like me the way maybe he liked me before this match.
“And I’m sorry that a guy like Diego, who’s so kind and so fair play, feels like this about me. Sascha is not this guy. Sascha is not like Casper, he’s not like Diego, he’s not like Andrey. ‘When he says someone is not fair play, you’re like, “Okay, great. Look at yourself in the mirror.”
It’s fair to say Medvedev isn’t best pleased with Zverev’s comments as the Russian looks ahead to the rest of the clay court season.
Also in his press conference Medvedev clarified that him and Zverev have never really been friends, “[I’m] Just gonna say we were never really close friends, maybe only in juniors,” Medvedev explained.
“That’s only him, in his congratulations speeches, saying something like he was friends with me and my wife, which is definitely not the case since [a] long time. I never said this. So, yeah, it doesn’t disappoint me at all, but again, if in one week he’s going to continue saying, well, I’m going to going to come to him in the locker room and say, Let’s discuss what’s wrong.
“Tell me, I’m gonna tell you, and maybe we never gonna speak again and we are gonna be enemies or whatever. But at this moment I don’t care much.”
Medvedev’s next tournament will be in Madrid after he withdrew from next week’s tournament in Barcelona.
