{"id":17745,"date":"2025-08-29T06:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17745"},"modified":"2025-08-29T06:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T06:04:03","slug":"medvedev-fined-42500-over-us-open-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=17745","title":{"rendered":"Medvedev fined $42,500 over US Open meltdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Daniil Medvedev has been fined $42,500 following his meltdown during Sunday&#8217;s stormy first round defeat to France&#8217;s Benjamin Bonzi, tournament organisers confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev was fined $30,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct, and was given a further $12,500 penalty for racquet abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The amount is approximately 40 percent of the $110,000 Medvedev received for appearing in the first round at Flushing Meadows.<\/p>\n<p>The fiery 29-year-old Russian erupted on Sunday following an incident in the third set when Bonzi was preparing to serve for the match.<\/p>\n<p>A photographer mistakenly wandered onto the court, prompting chair umpire Greg Allensworth to award Bonzi a first serve.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev raced across the court to remonstrate with Allensworth, accusing the official of wanting to end the match early.<\/p>\n<p>The Russian then turned the to the crowd, encouraging them to vent their displeasure at the umpire, leading to a six-minute delay before Bonzi could finally serve.<\/p>\n<p>The Frenchman was subsequently broken but recovered to clinch a 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5\/7), 0-6, 6-4 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev&#8217;s final act was to violently smash his racquet in anger following the loss.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniil Medvedev has been fined $42,500 following his meltdown during Sunday&#8217;s stormy first round defeat to France&#8217;s Benjamin Bonzi, tournament organisers confirmed. Medvedev was fined $30,000 for unsportsmanlike conduct, and was given a further $12,500 penalty for racquet abuse. The amount is approximately 40 percent of the $110,000 Medvedev received for appearing in the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}