Medvedev's rare double bagel

Daniil Medvedev walked onto Court Rainier III in Monte Carlo as the No. 10 player in the world and walked off 49 minutes later without a single game on the board, beaten 6-0, 6-0 by Matteo Berrettini. ATP Tour called it the first time Medvedev has lost a tour-level match without winning a game. (atptour.com) In tennis slang, a 6-0 set is a bagel because the zero looks like one. A 6-0, 6-0 match is a double bagel, and at the top of men’s tennis it is rare enough that people remember the date when it happens. (tennis.com) Berrettini’s win was not just rare by eye test. Tennis.com reported that he became only the fifth player in the history of the ATP rankings, which began in 1973, to beat a Top 10 opponent by a 6-0, 6-0 score. (tennis.com) That list is short enough to fit in one breath: Damir Keretic over Yannick Noah in 1983, Ivan Lendl over Jimmy Connors in 1984, Roger Federer over Gaston Gaudio in 2005, David Goffin over Tomas Berdych in 2016, and now Berrettini over Medvedev on April 8, 2026. Berrettini is also only the third man this century to do it to a Top 10 player. (tennis.com) The setting mattered. This was the Rolex Monte-Carlo Masters, the event that opens the biggest stretch of the European clay-court season, and clay has long been the surface that asks Medvedev the most uncomfortable questions. (atptour.com) Clay slows the ball down and kicks it up higher after the bounce, which turns points into longer wrestling matches instead of quick exchanges. That usually hurts players like Medvedev who do some of their best work on faster hard courts, where his flat groundstrokes and deep return position buy him time. (atptour.com) The surprise is that Medvedev is not helpless on clay anymore. Sky Sports noted that he has won the Italian Open in Rome before, and ATP Tour said he arrived in Monte Carlo after hard-court title runs in Brisbane and Dubai earlier in 2026. (skysports.com) (atptour.com) Berrettini, meanwhile, came in with a very different ranking next to his name. ATP Tour listed the 29-year-old Italian at No. 90 this week, in Monte Carlo on a wild card, which is a tournament entry handed out directly by organizers instead of earned through ranking. (atptour.com) His ranking hides the level he has reached before. ATP Tour identified Berrettini as a former world No. 6, and Sky Sports described him as a former Wimbledon finalist, which is why a win over Medvedev is surprising but not the kind of upset that comes from nowhere. (atptour.com) (skysports.com) The match itself was brutal in the details. ATP Tour said Medvedev did not earn a single game point on his own serve, while Sky Sports said he won only 17 points in the whole match. (atptour.com) (skysports.com) Berrettini said afterward that it was “one of the best performances” of his life and that he missed only three shots in the entire match. Even allowing for player exaggeration in the heat of the moment, that quote tells you how cleanly he struck the ball for 49 straight minutes. (atptour.com) Medvedev’s frustration spilled out before the scoreboard was finished humiliating him. Sky Sports reported that after falling behind 6-0, 2-0, he hurled his racket, smashed it repeatedly, and then placed the broken frame in a trash bin by the court. (skysports.com) That scene helped explain why the reaction spread so quickly online. A lopsided score can pass as a bad day, but a former world No. 1 losing every game, cracking under the pressure, and doing it in one of the sport’s biggest clay events turns a bad day into a clip people replay. (skysports.com) (atptour.com) The result also flipped the history between the two men. Tennis.com said Medvedev had won their first three meetings, all on hard courts, and Berrettini’s demolition in Monte Carlo was his first win in the matchup. (tennis.com) So the story is not only that Medvedev lost badly. It is that on April 8, 2026, in the first big clay event of the spring, a former Wimbledon finalist ranked No. 90 produced one of the cleanest scorelines the men’s game ever records against a Top 10 player, and Medvedev was the name on the other side of it. (atptour.com) (tennis.com)