Berrettini’s double‑bagel shock

Matteo Berrettini needed 49 minutes to beat Daniil Medvedev 6-0, 6-0 in Monte Carlo, which is the kind of scoreline you expect from a first-round mismatch, not from a former Wimbledon finalist against a former world No. 1 in an ATP Masters 1000 event. The ATP Tour called it a result that “shocked the tennis world,” and it was Medvedev’s first loss by that score in his career. (atptour.com; montecarlotennismasters.com) In tennis slang, a 6-0 set is a “bagel,” so a 6-0, 6-0 match is a “double bagel.” Berrettini had never won a tour-level match by that score before, which made the day a career first for the winner and a career low for the loser at the same time. (atptour.com; montecarlotennismasters.com) The shock got even bigger once the match stats came out. Berrettini won 50 of the 67 points played, and Medvedev did not earn a single game point on his own serve in the opening set. (montecarlotennismasters.com; tennis365.com) Medvedev’s frustration spilled over in the second set when he smashed his racket seven straight times on the clay and took a code violation. The Associated Press report carried by ESPN and The Washington Post described it as one of the ugliest moments of the tournament’s first week. (espn.com; washingtonpost.com) Part of the backdrop is that Monte Carlo is played on red clay, and clay has never been Medvedev’s favorite surface. He has joked for years about feeling uncomfortable on it, and this opener to his 2026 clay season turned that old weakness into a full collapse. (atptour.com; tennismajors.com) Berrettini’s side of the story is almost as strange as the score. He entered Monte Carlo on a wild card, ranked No. 90 in the world, and reached the third round without dropping a game because Roberto Bautista Agut retired while trailing 4-0 in the first round. (tennismajors.com; montecarlotennismasters.com) That matters in Monte Carlo because seeded players are supposed to stabilize the draw, and Medvedev was the No. 7 seed. When a seed loses 6-0, 6-0 in his first match, the whole section opens up for lower-ranked players who were not expected to have this path. (tennismajors.com; atptour.com) The next player to benefit is João Fonseca, the 19-year-old Brazilian who advanced to face Berrettini in the round of 16. Coverage ahead of the match described Fonseca as the youngest player left in the draw and one of the main attractions of the week. (sports.yahoo.com; tennisuptodate.com) So the story now is not just that Medvedev had a meltdown. It is that Berrettini turned a clay-court event that looked routine on paper into a draw with a wild-card former top-10 player, a teenage Brazilian rising fast, and one of the tournament’s top seeds already gone after 49 surreal minutes. (atptour.com; montecarlotennismasters.com; tennisuptodate.com)