Daniil Medvedev completely trolled the Australian Open crowd rooting against him in win
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We’ve seen this before from Daniil Medvedev.
In 2019, at the U.S. Open he slyly put up his middle finger to the angry crowd in Queens — who didn’t appreciate his antics that included throwing a towel offered to him from a ballperson — and then thanked fans after a win for feeding him with their energy.
This time, at the 2021 Australian Open, he defeated Stefanos Tsitsipas — who had upset Rafael Nadal earlier this week — in front of a clearly pro-Tsitsipas crowd. And after he hit a stunner of a passing shot for a winner, they barely flinched. So he stirred them up with this gesture:
Here’s what he said about it:
Can we go back to that shot for a sec?
Man.
He’s on to the finals to face Novak Djokovic.