"I want to be remembered not definitely for my tantrums": Medvedev looks to curb outbursts after Zverev win

Daniil Medvedev would like to be remembered for his personality and his on-court exploits as opposed to his temper tantrums which were frequent in Indian Wells.

The Russian ranted about the courts in Indian Wells in his every match and he did it yesterday against Zverev as well. Despite winning, Medvedev is not happy about the courts being slow finding them to be unworthy of the name hard courts. He apologized for his comments after his win over Zverev explaining that it's just part of his character.

"I feel like many times I'm capable of -- I mean, the thing is that you cannot constantly do, let's call it, errors and then apologize and say, You see, I apologize so that's mature. No, but I'm capable of seeing many times my mistakes. Sometimes not. But that's something I'm going to try to work throughout my whole career, because I want to be remembered not definitely for my tantrums but more for my game and for my good parts of my personality."

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He also talked about the negative impact it has on his game:

"I do think it actually distracts me and I would be better just shutting up and playing. That's what I should do. But at the same time, that's how I am. When I was much younger, I was actually much worse. I tried to mature, if we can say like this. I do think that in many aspects of my life and in my tennis career I matured a lot. And better than I was three, four years ago."

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