Daniil Medvedev: “Middle finger to the audience? No, I was checking my fingernails.”

Daniil Medvedev: "Middle finger to the audience? No, I was checking my nails"

Beaten by Dimitrov and caught by the audience: it wasn’t è an easy day for Daniil Medvedev who, eliminated at the hands of the Bulgarian from the Paris-Bercy Masters 1000, è indulged in a gesture towards the audience at the end of the metch.

After greetings at the net, Medvedev è walked off the court accompanied by booing from the Parisian audience to whom he extended his middle finger. "Middle finger? – the Russian later explained – But no, I was just checking my fingernails. Why would I do that to an audience as beautiful as the one in Paris?”".

Actually; Medvedev è clashed with the audience during the second when tones rose between him, known for his mood swings, and the Bercy fans who booed him on more than one occasion with the Russian (who, out of nervousness, also smashed one of his racquets), later admonished by the chair judge after an argument precisely about the booing of the audience.