Rome, 25 August (LaPresse) – ‘I had nothing against the photographer himself. Whenever there's noise, you don't just give back the first serve. He helped me get back into the match. It was a fun moment to experience. It wasn't the photographer who pissed me off, but the decision.’ So said Russia's Daniil Medvedev, who, in his match against France's Benjamin Bonzi in the first round of the US Open, lashed out at the chair umpire over a decision during match point in the third set and incited the crowd. "He had a match point on his serve and I hadn't broken him once in the match. I thought I was going to lose the match. And then he has to serve a second ball. I thought he would serve his second ball, probably win the match, and that would be it. And the umpire calls a first serve. In my head, I wanted to say so many other things, but I couldn't because there are rules and we're on a tennis court. So I expressed my emotions about that decision and the crowd did what they did without me having to push it too much. It was fun to watch all that. Seeing all that, I thought that's how I want to experience the last match of my career here," he added.
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