Daniil Medvedev is happy to entertain fans on the tennis court but is drawing the line at kind of 24/7 access Carlos Alcaraz gave to create his self-titled Netflix docuseries.
Though Medvedev and Alcaraz participated in Break Point, an ensemble reality series that ran two seasons on the popular streaming service, the former was critical of his portrayal in the wake of the second season’s release.
“The series is not real life,” said the 2021 US Open champion of what fans and fellow players deemed his “villain edit,” and the experience appears to have soured him on the medium going forward.
“I saw, for example, how Carlos’s one was done, you know, and, damn, it’s cameras all over you, all over the day,” Medvedev said at the Mutua Madrid Open on Sunday. “That’s not me. That’s just, I mean, I get, like when I’m on court I try to sign a lot of autographs. When I’m, let’s say, even if you’re in the official hotels or you’re out on a holiday, a lot of people camp outside the hotels. And it’s fine, I sign, I take pictures. But like when I’m having dinner, when I’m with my family I don’t.
“I sometimes can be, it’s not rude, but people are like, ‘Oh, let’s take a photo,’ when I’m eating dinner. And I’m like, ‘Nope.’ After dinner’s it’s okay. So I’m pretty, I can be pretty rude with my personal space.”
