Congrats to The Demon for winning a tough match today and getting into the 4th round 
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Cruz Hewitt through in the juniors 
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Daniil Medvedev has copped massive fines during his 2025 Australian Open campaign. First, he has to pay $123,000 for smashing the net camera during his five set win over Thai wildcard Kasidit Samrej in the opening round, on top of a $16,000 fine for his misconduct in the same match.
Then, in his loss to Learner Tien in the second round, Medvedev was fined another $106,000 for taunting a line judge by pretending he was going to smash a ball towards the officials, after he was twice called for a foot fault. Medvedev then refused to appear at the post-match press conference meaning another fine is likely.
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Here and I was thinking Tennis used to be a great sport… Now you see all these characters being idiots on court now.
So glad I stopped watching.
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Like it’s a new thing. 
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Every generation has had players who behave “differently” on court.
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I didn’t think there were anymore?
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I know lol but geez comparing it now to when I was growing up back in the 90s it was never this bad. Sure maybe some characters but not to the extent that we have seen in the last ten years or so.
You don’t want characters?
Short term memory is short term
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25 years ago, John McEnroe was kicked out of the 1990 Australian Open
Actions like his have contributed to the monetary penalties now being so high.
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I thought that foot faults were done electronical these days. Just like normal faults and if the ball is out. In the Australian and US Open anyway.
People forget the bad behaviour and fines handed out to: John McEnroe, Ilie Nastase, Andres Gomez, Carsten Arriens, Tim Henman, Jeremy Bayes, Jeff Tarango, Shuzo Matsuoka, Andre Agassi, Mariano Zabaleta, Stefan Koubek, Marcelo Rios.
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I remember most but the bad behaviour has gotten worse in the last ten years from what I have seen.
It was interesting to hear the other tennis commentators last night also bagging their own Tony Jones for his inappropriate comments.
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Very awkward for Nine, I reckon he and HoS Brent Williams might’ve made a formal apology behind the scenes to both AO organisers/TA and Djokovic’s camp, wouldn’t be surprised if upper Nine management and board back in Sydney also pushed it, they had some day yesterday also dealing with Cullen’s incident.
Ironic that fans of a sport where men commonly chuck tantrums are chucking a tantrum over this.
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Usual
Britain’s rising star Jack Draper has been forced to retire against Spanish superstar Carlos Alcaraz, mid-way through the 2nd set.
Draper played well in the opening set, broke back and looked like it was going to a breaker. Until the Spaniard managed to break the Pom again to take the set 7-5.
Jack then took a medical timeout, before coming back onto court. But after eventually getting broken in the second set, after a change of ends, shook hands with his opponent, the chair umpire and called it quits.
Disappointing for both players, the crowd and TV viewers, in what was looking like a good contest on paper. It does mean the night session will begin on time on RLA, if the Draper v Alcaraz match had gone 5 sets and 3-5 hours, Djokovic wouldn’t have stepped onto court until probably well after 8pm tonight.
WTF! Was that post match interview Novak?
Harden up mate! What a disgrace.
How precious can you be, honestly.
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