Medvedev's Midnight Madness

Daniil Medvedev had Louis Armstrong stadium rocking like Assembly Hall last night. Past midnight, down match point to lose in straight sets, the chair umpire gives Bonzi a 1st serve after the camera man steps onto the court between 1st and 2nd serve. Medvedev blows up, but the crowd erupts. We've all seen the clips it's easier to watch it then describe it.

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It's like nothing I've ever seen before. The crowd went on and on and on, completely uncontrollable. Medvedev couldn't even control them and he started them. He said to chill out they said nah no way and kept on going.  It was one of the sickest things ever.

The booing was deserved. Medvedev's performance up until then deserved boo'd, the umpire deserved boo'd, and by the end of it Bonzi kind of did too. The call from the umpire is beyond questionable to make there. The camera man steps foot onto the court for hardly a second, it didn't disrupt anything. It's the biggest point in the match. It could've been handled better by everybody involved and I wouldn't be surprised if Medvedev will be fined for saying the umpire gets paid by the match not hour. But this isn't to degrade the fruit loop in the chair. This is to applaud Daniil and the crowd.

This is exactly what tennis needs. It shows pure emotion and electricity. It was a 5 set thriller played through the night with emotional, physical, and mental ups and downs throughout the match. It shows how lonely the sport can be and how everybody handles it differently. It's the match that makes people fall in love with tennis. Little kids staying up late watching madness and athletes competing at the highest level. I damn near re fell in love with it. Daniil Medvedev controlling a packed crowd like a rockstar. This is exactly what the sport hangs their hat on, and they delivered. 1 on 1 war, late at night, best of 5 match. It's what makes tennis stand out. Promote this, don't push a weird narrative. When you mix raw emotion with passion, you get a product that's dynamite. Kygrios in his prime. Hewitt. Now Med an example.

On the other hand for Bonzi he could've stopped all of this by just playing a second serve. At any point in that whole thing. The crowd would've not been against him the next 50 minutes too. He could've also just served his first serve he was rewarded, but stood there while the crowd went crazier than NYC in King Kong. Nobody would ever do that but in that situation he should've. Him fighting in the end though- insane. Being able to win that match after all that. Everybody I knew thought that match was over the second Med broke after the crowd erupted. Major respect.

The unseen gem of it all is that a new celebration even dropped. At 4-5 15-30 in the 5th Medvedev serving, his hand starts to cramp. He shakes it out. He wins the point, shakes it out again. So what does the crowd do? Multiple people stand up and start shaking their hand. As in if it was a celebration. Just remarkable scenes. It is now a celebration to me, like Q Rich and Darius Miles chucking up the knuckleheads.

Match for the ages. Thank you Daniil, Bonzi, fruit loop, and New York City