{"id":1656208,"date":"2022-09-24T08:42:11","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656208"},"modified":"2022-09-24T08:44:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-24T12:44:22","slug":"french-open-daniil-medvedev-makes-monkey-gesture-at-crowd-in-bizarre-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/french-open-daniil-medvedev-makes-monkey-gesture-at-crowd-in-bizarre-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"French Open: Daniil Medvedev Makes &#8220;Monkey&#8221; Gesture at Crowd in Bizarre Meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffrench-open-daniil-medvedev-makes-monkey-gesture-at-crowd-in-bizarre-meltdown%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1656208&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>World No. 4 Daniil Medvedev has crashed out of the Moselle Open and turned the nation of France against him after a wild meltdown.<\/p>\n<p>The top seed at the event was upset 6-4, 6-7, 6-3 by Stanislas Wawrinka, who is trying to come back from injury.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev has had far from a happy season, booed throughout the Australian Open to a loss in the final, a fourth round exit at the French Open, banned from Wimbledon and a fourth-round loss to Nick Kyrgios at the US Open.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev was banned from Wimbledon because he\u2019s Russian and\u00a0the tournament had a ban on Russian and Belarusian players\u00a0as a result of the invasion of Ukraine.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/medvedev3.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Daniil Medvedev gestures towards crowd in France.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>His loss at the US Open ended his title defense and dropped him out of the World No. 1 spot.<\/p>\n<p>Having been broken in his first service game of the third set, Medvedev threw his racket as the French fans booed him.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev immediately started gesturing widely, booing back at the crowd and leaving fans thinking he was making \u201cmonkey\u201d gestures at the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe is simmering here,\u201d the commentator said. \u201cHe is surely going to attract the warning of the umpire \u2026 oh he really has to be careful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After the win however, Wawrinka didn\u2019t throw Medvedev under the bus.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/medvedev2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev2.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev gestures towards crowd in France.\" class=\"wp-image-23980601\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev2-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev2-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev2-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev2-3.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Daniil Medvedev gestures towards crowd in France.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/medvedev4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev4.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev throws his racket.\" class=\"wp-image-23980595\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev4-1.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev4-1.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Daniil Medvedev throws his racket.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe always have some great battles,\u201d the 37-year-old three-time Grand Slam champ said in his on-court interview. \u201cHe is at the top of the rankings. One of the best players and nicest person outside of the court, so it is always great to play against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now ranked 284th in the world, Wawrinka\u2019s win was his first against a top-10 player since 2020.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy with the level of play that I managed,\u201d Wawrinka said, who missed 12 months from March 2021 with a tendon injury. \u201cIt\u2019s for moments like this that I did everything to come back.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/09\/medvedev.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev.jpg\" alt=\"Daniil Medvedev gestures towards crowd in France.\" class=\"wp-image-23980602\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev-1.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev-2.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev-3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/medvedev-3.jpg&amp;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Daniil Medvedev gestures towards crowd in France.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After the game, Medvedev said: \u201cStan was better than me and he won. I tried to hang on. I had opportunities but it wasn\u2019t good enough. But respect to Stan, I didn\u2019t think he was 37 (years old).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wawrinka will next face Sweden\u2019s Mikael Ymer in his first ATP quarterfinal since January 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World No. 4 Daniil Medvedev has crashed out of the Moselle Open and turned the nation of France against him after a wild meltdown. 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