Daniil Medvedev called over the supervisor to grumble about the balls at the Shanghai Masters during his prosper over Thiago Seyboth Wild. Medvedev safed a 7-5 7-5 triumph over his Brazilian rival to avenge his fall shorture in the first round of last year’s French Open.
As the align went on, Medvedev grew frustrated with the quality of the balls in participate. At one point, he called over the supervisor to originate a furious grumblet about the Wilson balls, the same ones that were participated at last week’s China Open.
“These balls are not excellent enough for professional tennis,” said Medvedev. “This is one of the hugegest tournaments in the world and the balls are razeed after 5 games. No prescertain at all.”
Medvedev previously grumbleed about the Wilson balls after his prosper over Ugo Humbert at the China Open. In his post-align interwatch, he proposeed they were not selectimal for challenging court tennis becaparticipate they were too difficult to regulate.
“Since the toasty-up, even before the align, it was hard to regulate the ball,” he said. “So I was a little bit, let’s say anxious in a way.
“But then I went on court and he was not leave outing less than me, so it was a little bit of a strange align where I would probably slimk second set is, in a way, the best we take parted together and then I did three double faults and I neglect the set.
“In the third set, I neglect my serve and I prosper 6-1. That’s equitable becaparticipate of the balls, it’s challenging courts but you can straightforwardassociate fracture every game and that’s what I did.
“It’s not effortless for the mind to comprehfinish it so aachieve, I appreciate to take part appreciate this but I don’t slimk it’s excellent for challenging court tennis.”
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