Richard Pagliaro | Sunday, August 31, 2025
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Tony Nadal Have seen enough Daniil Medvedev Destruction – It’s time to say tennis takes action.
writing Spanish publication El Pais, Toni Nadal criticized Medvedev’s collapse in the U.S. Open’s first round against Benjamin Bonzi.
Toni Nadal condemned his “reproachable attitude” after losing to Bonzi to defeat his tecnifibre racket, calling for tennis hits to be more than the $42,500 fine for his actions.
One of the reasons we don’t see this behavior in other sports is simple: because they won’t tolerate it, says Toni Nadal, the uncle and original coach of Rafael Nadal.
“I believe tennis leaders should consider applying sports punishment to the possibility of increasingly common tennis players breaking the racket on the court,” Toni Nadal wrote in his he said. El Pais Column. “Besides we have to consider why this reprehensible attitude is more frequent in our movement than in other disciplines.
“I’ve never seen a table tennis player breaking the paddle, and there’s very few golfers punishing his club after making a mistake.”
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According to Grand Slam Rulebook, 2021 U.S. Open champion Medvedev was fined $30,000 for unexplained behavior and $12,500.
He earned a total of $110,000 in prize money, so he still profited at this year’s U.S. Open, albeit smaller than he wanted.
Nevertheless, Toni Nadal said that players with Medvedev’s experience and skills should never collapse in such a dramatic way. Uncle Tony asserted that the fine imposed by “not setting up his own actions” indicates a pause in extreme cases.
“In another unfortunate wonder, [Medvedev] Toni Nadal attacked his racket for El Pais, putting it in pieces. I was surprised that a player with Medvedev’s figure was unable to calm his nerves and that he was willing to give himself an image, and the subsequent high financial sanctions imposed on him, did not impose his actions. ”
