By Richard Pagliaro | @Tennis_Now | Thursday, April 11, 2024
Daniil Medvedev vowed to control the crazy yesterday.
Count one for crazy today.
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World No. 4 Medvedev erupted in a second-set Monte-Carlo meltdown for the second straight day—only this time he didn’t survive his descent into madness.
Karen Khachanov conquered good friend Medvedev 6-3, 7-5 to reach his eighth Masters 1000 quarterfinal and first quarterfinal in Monte-Carlo.
It was Khachanov’s first win over Medvedev in nearly six years.
The 15th-seeded Khachanov stayed composed as Medvedev melted down flinging his Tecnifibre racquet off the back wall, argued a line call that went against him then took out his frustrations on both supervisor Cédric Mourier and chair umpire Carlos Bernardes, who hit Medvedev with a point penalty after Medvedev dropped serve at 5-6 prompting the Russian to get up from his seat and stare…
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