Daniil Medvedev exits US Open after photographer incident on match point

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Ex-US Open champ suffers meltdown successful a third-set flashpoint aft an errant photographer’s enactment caused a constituent replay.

Published On 25 Aug 2025

France’s Benjamin Bonzi sent 13th effect Daniil Medvedev crashing retired of the US Open successful a stormy late-night thriller that boiled implicit into chaos pursuing an bonzer third-set meltdown by the Russian.

Bonzi precocious to the 2nd circular aft holding his nervus to triumph 6-3, 7-5, 6-7 (5/7), 0-6, 6-4 successful 3 hours and 45 minutes connected Sunday nighttime astatine Flushing Meadows successful New York.

The lucifer exploded into play successful the 3rd acceptable arsenic Bonzi served astatine vantage connected lucifer point, starring 5-4 aft winning the opening 2 sets.

After faulting connected his archetypal serve, Bonzi prepared to service again erstwhile seat umpire Greg Allensworth abruptly halted play aft a lensman mistakenly walked onto the court.

Allensworth called for clip aft shouting, “Not now, get disconnected the court, please”, earlier awarding a caller archetypal service to Bonzi connected the grounds of a “delay caused by extracurricular interference”.

That prompted an incandescent absorption from Medvedev, who sprinted crossed the tribunal to remonstrate angrily with Allensworth, accusing the umpire of seeking to extremity the lucifer early.

“Are you a man? Are you a man?” the 2021 US Open champion asked Allensworth, earlier shouting into a courtside microphone: “He wants to spell home, guys. He doesn’t similar to beryllium here; helium gets paid by the match, not by the hour.”

Medvedev past turned to the Louis Armstrong Stadium crowd, waving his arms wildly to promote them to dependable their displeasure.

As deafening catcalls and jeers rained down, play was held up for much than six minutes earlier Bonzi yet got the accidental to service for the lucifer erstwhile again.

With the Frenchman intelligibly rattled, Medvedev saved lucifer constituent and past went connected to unit a third-set tie-break, which helium duly won to support the lucifer alive.

Medvedev recovers, past falls astatine the last hurdle

Bonzi appeared to wilt successful the 4th set, Medvedev winning 6-0 to nonstop it to a decider.

But Bonzi showed large resoluteness successful the 5th set, doubly recovering from going a interruption down earlier breaking Medvedev’s service to seal victory.

“It was crazy. I whitethorn person got immoderate caller fans but besides immoderate caller non-fans,” Bonzi said afterwards.

“The vigor was wild. Thanks to each those who were booing that gave maine vigor successful the fifth.”

Bonzi admitted helium had mislaid composure during Medvedev’s third-set antics.

“I ne'er experienced thing similar that. Maybe we hold 5 minutes earlier the lucifer point, and it was truthful hard to play,” helium said.

“I tried to enactment calm and enactment successful the match, but it was not easy.”

Medvedev, meanwhile, slumped to his spot aft the defeat, smashing a racquet violently successful frustration.

Medvedev becomes the archetypal erstwhile champion to exit this year’s tournament, leaving Flushing Meadows aft a disappointing twelvemonth astatine the majors, during which helium managed to scope the 2nd circular conscionable once.

Sunday’s incidental was reminiscent of Medvedev’s 2019 lucifer connected the aforesaid court, erstwhile fans booed him for his antics and helium aboriginal taunted the assemblage successful his post-match interview, saying the jeers gave him energy. Medvedev had snatched the towel from a shot idiosyncratic during the lucifer and was fixed a codification usurpation by umpire Damien Dumusois. He past threw his racket successful the absorption of Dumusois, barked thing astatine him and aboriginal flashed his mediate digit adjacent to his forehead arsenic helium walked past the umpire’s chair, actions that led to him being fined $9,000 for that match.