Daniil Medvedev suffered an embarrassing 6-0, 6-0 humbling at the hands of Matteo Berrettini in the second round of the Monte Carlo Masters on Wednesday.
The seventh seed missed two break points in the opening game and then completely unravelled, making 30 unforced errors and serving five double faults.
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Medvedev did not win more than two points in any of the last 11 games and his frustrations boiled over in the second set, smashing his racquet into the court four times.
The crowd got into the act, cheering louder and louder after every smash in one of the all-time meltdowns by the famously fiery Russian.
He infamously unleashed during the 2022 Australian Open semi-finals calling the chair umpire “a small cat”.
Berrettini wrapped up the double-bagel victory, the first such defeat of former world number one Medvedev’s career, in just 49 minutes.
The former Wimbledon runner-up, now ranked 90th, will face either Joao Fonseca or Arthur Rinderknech in the last 16.
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