Daniil Medvedev suffered a shock five-set opening round defeat at the 2026 French Open after he was told to \u201cbehave\u201d during an exchange with his wife.<\/p>\n
No 6 seed Medvedev was beaten 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 by 97th-ranked Australian wildcard Adam Walton on Court Simone-Mathieu at Roland Garros on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Medvedev<\/a> committed 60 unforced errors and lost his serve six times, while he converted only five of the 21 break points he had on Walton\u2019s serve.<\/p>\n The match was played in high temperatures in Paris, and Medvedev expressed his frustration about the difficult conditions.<\/p>\n Following the 30-year-old Russian\u2019s complaints during the first set, his wife Daria Medvedeva was heard saying: \u201cIt\u2019s hot for everybody. Everybody is suffering. You need to behave!\u201d<\/p>\n Medvedev replied: \u201cWhen I start finding the court I\u2019ll start to behave.\u201d<\/p>\n John McEnroe gives honest opinion on Carlos Alcaraz\u2019s injury & Novak Djokovic\u2019s French Open hopes<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Toni Nadal chooses between coaching Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in revealing comments<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Want more from Tennis365? Add us as a preferred source on Google to your favourites list<\/a> for tennis coverage you can trust.<\/strong><\/p>\n Alex Corretja, a former world No 2 and two-time French Open finalist, spoke about Medvedev\u2019s mid-match disputes with his team in the TNT Sports studio.<\/p>\n \u201cWell, it\u2019s funny\u2026 Daniil needs that,\u201d Corretja said. \u201cHe needs these kinds of conversations.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes, he doesn\u2019t even think what he\u2019s saying. Sometimes, you say things, remember [Carlos Alcaraz] saying in Miami, \u2018I want to go home, I\u2019m tired\u2019, and everybody went nuts, saying, \u2018what\u2019s going on, you can\u2019t say that\u2019.<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes, you can say things to relieve a little bit of the stress you\u2019re feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n Former world No 4 Tim Henman reacted to Walton\u2019s victory over Medvedev on TNT Sports and Eurosport.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s the result of his life, I think. On a massive stage at Roland Garros, taking out a Grand Slam champion, former world No 1.<\/p>\n \u201cAdmittedly, clay isn\u2019t Medvedev\u2019s best surface. He had so many chances, there were some epic rallies. To finish it off in five on a day like today, full credit to the Aussie.\u201d<\/p>\n Medvedev arrived at the French Open following a run to the semi-finals in Rome, but he has now suffered seven first round exits in 10 Roland Garros appearances.<\/p>\n Henman continued: \u201cHe\u2019s been top 10 for a long time, his ranking did drop at the end of last year, but he has a new coaching team.<\/p>\n \u201cHis form has been improving, an upward trajectory, but this record at Roland Garros is not one he\u2019s going to be proud of.\u201d<\/p>\n READ NEXT: Toni Nadal chooses between coaching Jannik Sinner and Carlos Alcaraz in revealing comments<\/a> The post Daniil Medvedev suffers shock French Open exit after being told to \u2018behave\u2019 by his wife<\/a> appeared first on Tennis365<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Daniil Medvedev suffered a shock five-set opening round defeat at the 2026 French Open after he was told to \u201cbehave\u201d during an exchange with his wife. No 6 seed Medvedev was beaten 6-2, 1-6, 6-1, 1-6, 6-4 by 97th-ranked Australian wildcard Adam Walton on Court Simone-Mathieu at Roland Garros on Tuesday. Medvedev committed 60 unforced […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2237\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tennisring.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More Tennis News<\/h2>\n
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