World No. 2 Daniil Medvedev wasn’t happy his Australian Open round-of-16 match against Maxime Cressy was scheduled for Margaret Court Arena. Medvedev, the 2021 Australian Open runner-up and 2021 US Open champion, felt he deserved to be scheduled to play at Rod Laver Arena.
“I was quite mad today because of few things,” Medvedev said, per Tennis Majors. “To be honest, I’m working on myself, and that’s why I managed to win and still kept my composure, as much as I could, because sometimes I go much more crazier than I did today”.
“It’s because, I don’t know, I just felt a little bit not perfect today for few reasons. First of all is where I really don’t know, like, what should I do to play on centre courts in Grand Slams. Because I won the last Grand Slam, I mean, I’m highest seed here, and to play against Maxime would be easier on Rod Laver, more space.
When you play on a smaller court it’s tougher to play somebody who does serve and volley than on a bigger court. It’s like same in Wimbledon, I haven’t even played on Centre, because I don’t count the fifth set which I played after the rain, after being put on Court 2”.
The court wasn’t the only thing Medvedev was upset about
Also, Medvedev wasn’t happy with the fact that he was not allowed to run to the bathroom without it counting as a bathroom break. “I don’t see any logic in these rules, so hence I can call this stupid, that I cannot — so the rule is that if you use all your toilet breaks, you can go still pee in the one minute that they have for the change of ends or whatever.
So I asked the referee and the supervisor, can I now run to pee in the 1:30 that I have between the sets to then be able to change and still have one change left if there is a fifth set, because I will need to change again, it’s freaking 35 degrees.
No, it has to count. Yeah, but I want to do it in 1:30 that I have to change and just don’t count it. I’m going to change after and it’s gonna count. That’s nonsense, so I got, as you can see, pretty mad about it and I think what happened afterwards was a consequence.
I’m really sorry to Maxime about it, » Medvedev said. Medvedev wasn’t happy with several things but he overcame Cressy in four sets to set up a Felix Auger-Aliassime quarterfinal.
