Berrettini's double bagel

Matteo Berrettini beat Daniil Medvedev 6-0, 6-0 in 49 minutes at the Monte-Carlo Masters on Wednesday, a scoreline so lopsided that Medvedev did not reach a single game point on his own serve. It was the first tour-level match of Medvedev’s career in which he failed to win a game. (atptour.com) In tennis slang, a 6-0 set is a bagel, so two of them in one match is a double bagel. Against a top-10 player, it is even rarer: Berrettini became only the fifth man in the rankings era, which began in 1973, to beat a top-10 opponent by that score. (outlookindia.com) The match was played on red clay at the Monte-Carlo Country Club, and clay has long been Medvedev’s least comfortable surface. Wednesday was also Medvedev’s first clay-court match of the 2026 season, while Berrettini arrived with rhythm and had already advanced through the first round when Roberto Bautista Agut retired with Berrettini ahead 4-0. (atptour.com) The numbers read like a bad practice set that somehow became official. Medvedev landed 36 percent of his first serves, hit five double faults, won only 17 of 67 total points, and got broken six times; Berrettini won 50 points, saved the only two break points he faced, and did not hit a double fault. (outlookindia.com) (sofascore.com) Midway through the second set, after falling behind 2-0, Medvedev snapped. He smashed his racket seven times on Court Rainier III, received a code violation for unsportsmanlike conduct, and then dropped the broken frame into a courtside trash bin as the crowd reacted with sarcastic cheers. (outlookindia.com) That outburst will likely cost him more than pride. Outlook India reported that Medvedev is expected to face a significant fine, which is the standard next step when an umpire issues a code violation for racket abuse at an ATP event. (outlookindia.com) For Berrettini, the result was not just a freak scoreline but part of a nearly perfect week. He said it was “one of the best performances” of his life, and across his first two Monte-Carlo matches he still had not lost a single game, because the Bautista Agut retirement ended at 4-0 and the Medvedev match ended at 12-0. (atptour.com) The win also carried ranking weight and reputation weight. Berrettini entered Monte-Carlo as a wild card, earned his first win over Medvedev after losing their first three meetings, and collected his first top-10 victory since beating Alexander Zverev in Monte-Carlo in 2025. (atptour.com) The next step came quickly because Monte-Carlo moved into the third round on Thursday, April 9. The official ATP order of play listed Berrettini against João Fonseca on Court des Princes, turning one of the strangest scorelines of the season into a test of whether Berrettini could carry that form one round further. (atptour.com)