It’s very simple. Medvedev plays Djokovic in the semi-final in Beijing, he gets sixteen break points, he converts one. One. And in the middle of the match, he starts imitating Djokovic, miming a tired player. The account Univers Tennis posted the video on 5 October.
I called it. Not in January, this time, I’m being honest: in September, at the Léopold club, in front of three members of my interclubs team (Belgium’s weekend team league) and a cone of chips. I said: “Medvedev is going to do something against Djokovic.” There. Something. That’s exactly it.
According to We Love Tennis, Djokovic often lets his suffering show after gruelling points, and the imitation is said to be a form of frustration on Medvedev’s part. Careful, I’m not saying the opposite of what I said. I’m clarifying. One break point in sixteen is six percent. Me, in Kitzbühel, in ’92, against a future top 10, I converted one in seventeen. Or in fifteen. The number moves, the principle stays. And I imitated nobody, but that’s because my opponent wasn’t sweating, and you can’t mime that.
The site also writes that Medvedev seems to struggle to accept being dominated by a player almost 40. There, I’m behind him. Last Sunday I lost a doubles match to a gentleman who had brought his own stool. I imitated him at the changeover. Nobody laughed, except the gentleman, who then won the tie-break.
Jean-Pol, the man with the stool was the opposing captain. He’s C15.5.
So, to sum up: I predicted that Medvedev would do something, I also predicted that he would do nothing, and both came true, give or take six percent. Ninety percent of my predictions come true, and I’m being kind. Alright?
It’s true, we checked: We Love Tennis.
