On Thursday, Daniil Medvedev reported that Taylor Fritz once called him a “liar” during a training session in Wimbledon a few years ago.
“So we're playing and I don't remember exactly what it was, but I was yelling something when I thought the ball was out of bounds. Then my wife – I think she was my girlfriend at the time – talks to me after practice and says he talked to his coach and said, 'Damn this guy, he cheats all the time,'” the world number five said.
“I was so shocked because I really, especially in practice, honestly, I don't care if I win or lose a practice set. I always try to win, but it doesn't matter.”
Medvedev called on journalists to ask Fritz about his own version of events and The American responded a day later, explaining that it was not “deep.”
“Yeah, I heard about it. I don't remember it completely. I think if I said anything, I think I remember that maybe he just gave me a bad signal,” the world number 12 responded.
“I do it all the time. Like, someone makes a bad throw in practice, I go to my coach and say, 'He just hit me so hard or gave me such a bad throw.'
“I don't really care, but I know they're there, no one is trying to do it on purpose. I make the comment, 'Yeah, that was a really bad choice.' But if that happened, that's what happened. I didn't think, 'Oh, he's deceiving me that much.' It's definitely not that, it's not that deep.”