Berrettini hands Medvedev a shocker

Matteo Berrettini needed 49 minutes to beat Daniil Medvedev 6-0, 6-0 in Monte Carlo on Wednesday, a scoreline tennis calls a double bagel because the zeroes look like two bagels on the scoreboard. The Association of Tennis Professionals match log shows Medvedev did not take a set or a game in the Round of 32. (atptour.com 1) (atptour.com 2) That kind of score is almost unseen between elite men’s players, because even a bad day usually still produces one hold of serve or one loose return game. Tennis.com reported Berrettini became only the third man this century to double-bagel a Top 10 opponent, and Opta said he was the fifth player since the rankings began in 1973 to do it. (tennis.com) The matchup made the result even stranger because Medvedev came in as the No. 7 seed and world No. 10, while Berrettini was in the draw on a wild card. The Monte-Carlo event site said Medvedev had 19 wins this season before the match. (atptour.com) (montecarlotennismasters.com) Clay helps explain part of it, because this is the slow red dirt where points last longer and big first serves lose some of their shortcut value. The Association of Tennis Professionals lists Monte Carlo as the first clay-court ATP Masters 1000 event of the 2026 season, and Medvedev has spent years saying clay is his least natural surface. (atptour.com 1) (atptour.com 2) Berrettini, by contrast, has the kind of game that can still hurt on clay when it is landing cleanly: a heavy serve, a forehand that jumps high, and enough patience to finish longer rallies. The tournament site said this was the first tour-level 6-0, 6-0 win of Berrettini’s career, and he reached the third round in Monte Carlo without dropping a game because Roberto Bautista Agut retired at 4-0 in the first round. (montecarlotennismasters.com) Medvedev’s frustration was visible in the middle of the match, when he smashed his racket repeatedly on the clay. The Washington Post reported he struck it seven straight times during the loss. (washingtonpost.com) The upset landed in the middle of a messy day for seeds, which is how a draw opens up fast at a one-week Masters event. The Association of Tennis Professionals results page shows fourth seed Lorenzo Musetti lost to Monaco’s Valentin Vacherot, 13th seed Andrey Rublev lost to Zizou Bergs, and 10th seed Flavio Cobolli lost to qualifier Alexander Blockx. (atptour.com) Alexander Zverev, the No. 3 seed, nearly joined them. The Association of Tennis Professionals said Zverev trailed qualifier Cristian Garin 4-6, 1-3 and later 2-5 in the third set before escaping 4-6, 6-4, 7-5. (atptour.com) All of this is happening in a tournament with real weight at the top of men’s tennis. The Association of Tennis Professionals says Carlos Alcaraz arrived in Monte Carlo as world No. 1 and defending champion, while Jannik Sinner came in on the other half of the draw as the other big favorite on clay. (atptour.com) (tennisuptodate.com) So the headline is not just that Medvedev lost badly. It is that one of the tour’s biggest names disappeared in under 50 minutes at the first major clay stop of the spring, while the rest of the field spent the same day showing how unstable the chase behind Alcaraz and Sinner can look. (atptour.com 1) (atptour.com 2)