Daniil Medvedev beats Nick Kyrgios and the crowd, Aryna Sabalenka's service troubles - Australian Open diary

Medvedev’s perfect response to ‘siuu-ing’ crowd World No.2 Daniil Medvedev has become an expert at towing the line between antagonising the crowd and making them fall in love with him. Ad/> The witty Russian had the majority of Rod Laver Arena against him during his tight four-set victory over home favourite Nick Kyrgios in the second round on Thursday.

Australian OpenBig Three snub ‘doesn’t make a difference’ to Tsitsipas7 HOURS AGO As has been the case all week, fans in the stands were yelling ‘siuu’ continuously throughout the contest, and Medvedev hit out the spectators during his on-court interview with Jim Courier, noting they took it too far when they were bellowing the Cristiano Ronaldo celebration between his first and second serves. “Show some respect for Jim Courier, he won here.

I cannot hear him, guys,” Medvedev urged the crowd as the ‘siuus’ kept raining down on him. Before walking off court, Medvedev had the perfect message to sign on the camera lens.

He wrote “siuuuuuu” of course. Classic! Medvedev holds off Kyrgios and raucous home crowd to reach third round 'Best player in the world' — Kyrgios's Medvedev claim backed by Wilander 'They probably have a low IQ' – Medvedev SLAMS fans for booing Sabalenka keeps winning sans serve It’s been a long time since a case of the yips has manifested this strongly in a top tennis player’s game and yet Aryna Sabalenka continues to find a way to win matches despite her crippling service woes.

The No.2 seed commended her second round clash against China’s 20-year-old Wang Xinyu by hitting six double faults in just the opening game to get broken. It was an uphill battle from then on as the Belarusian finished the match with a sum of 19 double faults, but still managed to