"Sascha is living in his own world, look at yourself in the mirror": Medvedev doesn't hold back after Zverev sportsmanship claims

After losing out to Holger Rune, the questions for Daniil Medvedev of course centred around Alexander Zverev's prior comments about him being 'one of the most unfair players in the world' and accused him of gamesmanship.

Medvedev slammed Zverev and told him to look in the mirror. He pointed to incidents before including with Diego Schwartzman at the ATP Cup and said that he was at fault so they have a right to make these comments.

But he believes in Zverev's case he doesn't and that he lives in his own world especially in the heat of the moment.

"First, I do think that honestly with probably 90 players on tour I'm great friends. With maybe 50 it's not like best friends but really great relationship," Medvedev said post match as per Express.

"So I usually feel bad when something on court happens and let's say I'm not fair play, because I know sometimes I'm not."

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"Sascha is living in his own world," he continued.

"Yeah, Sascha, when he loses, we can find maybe 25 interviews of him where he does say some strange things. Again, honestly saying like if guys like Casper, I don't know, Andrey, maybe Karen, even Diego, so I had let's call it a fight with him in ATP Cup, honestly, I'm at fault, and probably he still like doesn't like me the way maybe he liked me before this match.

"And I'm sorry that a guy like Diego, who's so kind and so fair play, feels like this about me.

"Sascha is not this guy. Sascha is not like Casper, he's not like Diego, he's not like Andrey. When he says someone is not fair play, you're like, 'Okay, great. Look at yourself in the mirror.'"

He also spoke about their dynamic off court and said that they are not close friends and joked that they could now be enemies.

"I'm not going to go too much into details. Just gonna say we were never really close friends, maybe only in juniors," he clarified. "That's only him, in his congratulations speeches, saying something like he was friends with me and my wife, which is definitely not the case since [a] long time. I never said this."

"So, yeah, it doesn't disappoint me at all, but again, if in one week he's going to continue saying, well, I'm going to going to come to him in the locker room and say, Let's discuss what's wrong.

"Tell me, I'm gonna tell you, and maybe we never gonna speak again and we are gonna be enemies or whatever. But at this moment I don't care much."

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