Berrettini Destroys Medvedev 6-0, 6-0 in 49 Minutes — One of Five Times Ever
Berrettini Gives Medvedev a Double Bagel in 49 Minutes at Monte Carlo
It lasted 49 minutes. Medvedev didn’t win a game. Berrettini barely missed a shot.
The Italian dismantled the world No. 7 6-0, 6-0 on the clay in Monte Carlo on April 8 — a result so complete it belongs in a very short list. Only the fifth time in ATP history, since rankings began in 1973, that a player has double-bageled a Top 10 opponent. Ivan Lendl did it. Roger Federer did it. Now Berrettini.
He broke Medvedev in every single service game. Six breaks. Not one deuce game except the very first, when Medvedev scraped together two break points and nothing else. That was the closest it got.
“I think it was definitely one of the best performances of my life,” Berrettini said. “I think I missed three shots in the whole match.”
Three shots. In a match against a former world No. 1.
For Medvedev, it’s the first time he has ever walked off a court without winning a single game. That’s a painful first. For Berrettini, recovering from years disrupted by injury, it’s the kind of afternoon that resets a narrative entirely.
Up next: a quarterfinal against João Fonseca, the Brazilian teenager making waves at the tournament. Berrettini’s first Monte Carlo quarterfinal is in sight.
After 49 minutes on Wednesday, nothing about that prospect looks frightening.