{"id":22224,"date":"2025-08-28T10:06:27","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/us-open-daniil-medvedev-fined-42-5k-for-the-meltdown\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T10:06:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T14:06:27","slug":"us-open-daniil-medvedev-fined-42-5k-for-the-meltdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/2025\/08\/28\/us-open-daniil-medvedev-fined-42-5k-for-the-meltdown\/","title":{"rendered":"US Open: Daniil Medvedev fined $42.5k for the meltdown."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The US Open punished Danil Medvedev $42,500 on Wednesday after a meltdown and a racket smash during the opening round defeat in New York on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev was fined $30,000 for sportsman-like behavior when he was defeated by Benjamin Bonzi, and hit another $12,500 for racket abuse after utterly destroying the racket after the loss.<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev earned $110,000 for participating in the opening round of the tournament. The fine would take him more than a third of that.<\/p>\n<p>advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Boni was scheduled to attend the match on Sunday night when the photographer actually went on the court and completely confused the match. It led to a break of nearly seven minutes, during which Medvedev approached the officials and began screaming at him. Officials gave Bonzi another serve due to the error.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He wants to go home, he doesn&#8217;t want to be here,&#8221; Medvedev screamed to ESPN cameras, talking about the officials during his explosion. &#8220;He&#8217;s paid by the match, not an hour.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Medvedev eventually got together and forced five sets, but Bonzi won and made it from the first round. In the opening round of the majors this season, he marked Bonsie&#8217;s second victory over Medvedev. He defeated Medvedev at Wimbledon in June. Medvedev has only won one match this season in all four Grand Slams.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Open punished Danil Medvedev $42,500 on Wednesday after a meltdown and a racket smash during the opening round defeat in New York on Sunday. Medvedev was fined $30,000 for sportsman-like behavior when he was defeated by Benjamin Bonzi, and hit another $12,500 for racket abuse after utterly destroying the racket after the loss. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":22225,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[6003,2771,3803,2683,6004,32,24],"class_list":{"0":"post-22224","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tennis","8":"tag-42-5k","9":"tag-daniil","10":"tag-fined","11":"tag-medvedev","12":"tag-meltdown","13":"tag-open","14":"tag-tennis"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportsdaily.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}