Medvedev’s Default, Sinner's Knee Issues & The Reality of Challenger Tennis

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Andy Roddick (2:02)

Hey everyone, welcome to Served. I'm Andy, producer Mike, JW, Tucky, Sean.

We have one Dean Goldfine coming.

Mike (2:10)

Yes, sir.

Andy Roddick (2:12)

We're about to come on and then Medhi hit a guy.

Mike (2:16)

I mean, he just went full whack-a-mole into the stands.

Andy Roddick (2:19)

So Djokovic up in the semis, 7-5, 5-3, serving for it, 15-all. Hits a winner, ball bounced off the back.

Medhi takes a whack, hits a fan in the eyeball, gets kicked out.

Mike (2:34)

Let's take a look at the clip real quick just so we can understand what happened. Here we go.

Andy Roddick (2:40)

Runs, comes off, he's pissed.

Dean Goldfine (2:42)

He rebounds back.

Andy Roddick (2:44)

Whack. Oh, yeah.

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Is he stopping up from going to the crowd?

Mike (2:47)

That was a full swing.

Andy Roddick (2:50)

Yeah.

Mike (2:51)

That was a full one-hander.

Andy Roddick (2:52)

I don't know what he was doing. Listen. Frustration. So this is like, my phone kind of started lighting up and it's like Medvedev defaulted.

Sure. But this is about as straightforward and not dramatic, right? He goes over, he hits it in.

He was wrong. Like, what do I say all the time? I don't care if you break your own shit. Like I don't care if you break a racket. I don't care. Like, I'm not going to clutch my pearls about if like you decided to break your own hat, Mike. I wouldn't care.

Mike (3:24)

Yeah. You wouldn't care.

Andy Roddick (3:25)

Now, as soon as someone else comes into it, as soon as, as soon as someone else comes into it and you hit a fan, you're gone. Right?

Mike (3:34)

I mean, he caught the guy pretty good too. He was holding his eye when he walked out.

Andy Roddick (3:36)

I mean, and for me, it's not about like, I don't like the thing where, even when Novak hit the person, it was, you know, oh, if it would have hit him or hurt her in the, in the, in the shoulder, it would have been fine. I'm like, I don't know. Like the act is the act. If you hit someone, you're gone. Like, let's just make a clear cut rule where it's not like a judgment. Right. And to Leonie's credit, you know, Medvedev hits the person. Leonie comes down, has quick conversations, makes a decision. Medvedev knows it's coming. Like he's not surprised by it. And he knows he put himself in position to get defaulted. And he took it and we're getting, we're hearing things. JW, maybe you expand on this, but you had heard Medvedev going to meet the fan to try to make it right. Like Medvedev messed up. He deserved to be defaulted. He got defaulted.